Author name: Mark Begbie

Family

On the road…

Debs aunt and uncle, Margaret and David were over in the UK and stayed with us for a week.  For three days, the whole family piled into Debs new wagon and went on a bit of a road trip around the western highlands to take in some of the beautiful scenery, brave the midges and […]

Parenthood Play

Getting in to pot

Every parent has to deal with life’s issues at some point or another.  Whether it’s the first dodgy boyfriend, crashing the car or coming home drunk and throwing up all over the newly laid pale cream carpet; well OK, that was our dog and it wasn’t drunk.  So it was for us this weekend.  We

Daily Life

New Direction

So, it’s official, I’m now in charge of iSLI until at least July of next year.  It was put to the board on Friday and they ratified my position as director.  I’ve actually been in the role now for a month, and whilst it is a lot of work and there is a definite feeling

Parenthood Pregnancy

Open wide!

We had growth scans at 28 and 32 weeks with the result that the head circumference was somewhere just about the 50th percentile on both occasions, but the abdominal measurement was above at 28 weeks and below at 32 weeks.  As a result we were asked to go back today for a further scan, carried

Daily Life

Summertime, and the living is easy(!?)

Summer it certainly is.  We’ve had a great spell of even greater weather, with the mercury toddling up into the mid twenties (and no that’s not Farenheit, David) which is just way too hot for any human to endure for an extended period.  Mrs. B., being a lizard, has been lapping up the heat, and

Daily Life Parenthood Pregnancy

We’re pregnant!

I guess the title says it all really.  As of now, we are approximately 12 weeks pregnant; we won’t know exactly until we get our first (dating) scan which is on the 15th of the month.  So that was the motivation for putting up the blog, a place where we can both easily keep all

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