Maudster update

not seen her little sister yet as she was whisked off to mormor and morfar before she got the chance.

Have to give her a mention too so when she looks at this in years to come she'll realise that we were thinking about her too.

Maud.

Erm hello...?

Been a quiet couple of months for the I&I crew - just been lazing around minding our own business watching the world go by.
Since the last update which appears to be sometime during the spring (remember that??) this, amongst other things, has happened. (In no particular order)
We have moved to a new flat.
We have sold our old flat.
Auntie Sarah turned 40.
United have become both Premier League Champions and European Champions.
We have been on holiday.
Maud has been seriously ill.
I have carried a lot of stuff up and down stairs and sworn a lot.
I've slept too little.
I've worked too much.
and Mauds first passport has expired.

Hmm when it's written down like that it really doesn't seem that much....how disappointing.
Still, yes we've moved, not by any means settled in the new place yet as we've been waiting to get our mitts on the money from the other flat before we can buy some essentials like wardrobes and things, but we're getting there slowly but surely.

The biggest most major thing that overshadowed everything else was Mauds sudden illness, scared the bejebes out of us i can tell ya.
She woke up one morning and couldn't stand up by herself - after angst ridden 24 hours we finally got a diagnosis of acute cerebellar ataxia
She seems to have made a full recovery but it was a manic few days which of course just happened to coincide with us getting an offer for the flat.

So what to do with a 2 year old who has just been diagnosed with a neurological disorder, well this is I&I after all, we packed our stuff and jumped on a plane to Manchester of course. (don't worry the doctors OK'd it all first.)

On her hols Maud read alot of books (swotting up on her english)..



read some more


Played at being Police a lot



Wore her sunglasses and met a whole load of family.



Found out that she really, really, really, likes ice cream but really, really, really, doesn't want anything to do with seaweed ever again.

.....

Grandma, i think your watering can has more than two holes.




Maud is getting to know the drill 'Just stand over by that unintresting backdrop.....'

Any takers?

Waddaya mean where i've been, bit of hiatus in posting to I&I, that doesn't mean to say i've been sat on my skinny bottom doing nothing.. oooohhh no. The computer is packed down along with almost everything else which makes up the material things in my life, so contact with the outside world without the internet is, as you can imagne, very limited.
The flat that has been our home for the last 8 years and 6 months will soon be up for sale, and we had to get it presentable so that mr and mrs potential buyer don't get put off by smelly nappies and the such. So here it is for the whole world to see - our flat.
So if you just happen to know of anybody on the lookout for a top floor flat 15 minutes walk from the centre of Oslo, this is the place. Come on down.

I hate this kind of thing really, presenting the place where nobody except the most crazed minimalist could function, everybody knows that it is all just some big show, but if it gets me more money in my sweaty little hands i'm in.
Still erasing every last trace of Mauds existence just for the satisfaction of others doesn't sit well in my head, but the market dictates what needs to be done...so be it.

clean

clean

Grown up stuff

Time is a whizzin' by as usual, plenty to be thinking about atm. We get the keys to the new flat next tuesday so we've been filling our time with estate agent meetings and bank loan arrangements. Unfortunately we have hit a bad time to be selling, the market has pretty much stopped up compared to how it has been the last 5 years or so. We do however have a sought after location so that will probably ensure that we pull through without dropping the price too much. Pretty manic selling process compared to that of the UK, not unusual that flats like ours go on the market and 7 days later it's all done and dusted, certainly was like this when we bought.

Pireus the cat has been living on borrowed time in recent months we are really unable to take him with us when we move so we have been hoping to find someone willing to adopt him just like we did 8 years ago, but who wants a 12 year old poorly cat?
Luckily one of our neighbours has saved his skin, for the time being at least. He has now been in his new home for a little over a week and seems to be doing OK. We still get him popping in for a visit every now and again but when he is unable to find his food, water, bed or litter tray he slowly seems to be getting the idea that he doesn't live here anymore.

Of course we still manage to find a bit of time for cuddly old Maud ;-)
As usual i'm playing catch up on the blogging of photos - here are some from Mauds Easter hols.


Maud the piano teacher



Telly addicts, Nora and Maud get sucked into TV world.



That's my girl, at the wheel of a classic car.



Cold easter weather calls for extreme measures.



Maud and her cousins tuck in, maybe next year Maud will have grown into her balaclava.