Wednesday 24 October 2007

Now here is a first

Maud suddenly gets stage fright and goes all shy in front of the camera.
(sorry about the quality of the video but somebody always insists on using the camera on it's side which means i have to do some computer jiggery pokery to rotate them)


Maud gets shy from matt on Vimeo.


The second take is a bit better with a lot of prompting from auntie Ingvill.


Performing monkey from matt on Vimeo.

Friday 19 October 2007

25 year old wallowing beast

Some things just happen, opportunity came knocking at my door in the shape off a cheap 25 year old wallowing beast and i weakly submitted to its lure.
Intrigued?
It is something which has been filed away in my noggin, not in the 'incompetent and irresponsibility' folder but something more along the lines of 'stuff to get around to do when the chance arises' folder.
Meet the newest member of the family, who from this day forward for reasons to be revealed shortly, is to be known as The Fat Wagon.

I can hear the groans from here, well let me tell you, it was cheap, and it is going to be some kind of rolling experimental, how to put it, green machine in more ways than one.
In addition to the Über cool green it will hopefully, if everything goes to plan, run on a certain percentage of common or garden cooking oil. Yes really.
For those of you who don't about Rudolf Diesel i suggest you take a quick looksie here.

So there you have it - The Fat Wagon -
You can follow the development and the possibly many break downs of both me and the car in a new blog too.

Heat

Maud's life is now getting back to normal after her superstar jet set lifestyle took her over the Atlantic to Canada and back again.
Sleeping patterns have eventually shifted back to the parental recommended of a nightly 12 hours and the midday snooze is also now just getting to back the prescribed dose.
Of course the superstar lifestyle has it's ups and downs -
a successful photo shoot one day and the paparazzi, Heat magazine style, expose shots the next.





Thursday 11 October 2007

Jet lag

So how y'all been while we've been on our hols?
Hard to put 3 weeks of holidays into one single blog posting but here's the jist
some rain, some sun, plenty of fun, wii shoulder, shopping, tons of food and a dash of G&T.
The first week was the four of us (me, silje , maud and auntie sarah) weeks 2 and 3 we were joined by grandma and uncle tim.
Plenty of moving about too, our first 2 nights in a hotel then 10 days in a apartment in downtown Vancouver and then a week and a bit at White Rock in a huge house by the sea, not far from some place called the USA.

No big dramas to report during the entire trip either. Maud's sleeping habits did take a bit of a turn for the worse during the last week when she more or less refused to sleep by herself, the very mention of bed set her bottom lip quivering and placing her in bed provoked a wail of protest the likes of which we have never previously experienced from her, this only abated when somebody slept in the same room with her.
Can't really blame her for not wanting to miss out on our wii-ing sessions in the evening can you.
Oh, and every body caught a cold except Silje!

More pictures to come when i get time.

Stone alone, Maud makes a statement, this is the white rock of White Rock btw.