James's advert

hey everyone

hope you had a good time saying farewell to 2005 and have thus far had a most excellent 2006!! we were in bed by about 11pm - catching sleep whilst James did!

here's the newspaper ad my folks took out to mark the arrival of James in the world. i am sure some of you will want to see it!

otherwise, all is well on this side of the world. James is getting bigger and beautiful every day, and Michele has really got the hang of motherhood - she is rather something at it!!

i spent New Year's Day with The Colonel, showing him how to get his DVD-R working. he seems to have the knack of it now, and i have no doubt at all that he will be running off discs with no hassles. nice one, since he has taught me so much over the years it is nice to be able to reciprocate the ability!!

James had some visitors today, our good friend Maria and our "friend" Sinbad. i must say i was somewhat disappointed that James did not say his first words today - James spent five minutes in the company of Sinbad but did not say what most people normally do to Sinbad after spending that kind of time with him. alas, i cannot use that word on this web page.

meanwhile, for all my years in education, i have been left unsure as to what is the correct grammatical way to say "James's". i believe the "'s" is correct as we are reffering to something pertaining to James in the singular, ie there is not a gang of James', it is something that is James's. feel free to correct me on this one if you have a different view!

oh well, what do you know, a halfway decent update for a change!!

be excellent to each other!!