Alpro #deskfest Competition

We’ve entered a competition with Alpro to try and win a weekend in New York City. Now, I know what you’re thinking… New parents? Trying to win a holiday? Well, the chances are slim but it was great fun doing it!

The details for the competition are here and this is our entry below:

You had to tweet a picture of you enjoying your Alpro breakfast at your work desk. Aidan being Aidan, he can’t resist the opportunity to do something a bit out of the ordinary. We’ve got another entry for tomorrow, but I’ll keep that one a secret for now.

If you like our picture and would like to help us out trying to win the holiday (!) then please click here and tweet about it, share the picture on Facebook or ‘pin’ it… Thanks in advance!

We went into Aidan’s office at the weekend to take the pictures – he’s not dared tell anyone at work about this, so it might be highly amusing if we do, by some miracle, win! Corliss had a whale of a time with the paper from the office paper shredder:

At one point, she went suspiciously quiet and I found a piece of paper tucked inside her cheek. She was gumming away on it – amazing how they quickly learn to keep quiet when they’re up to no good! If this is what she’s like at 15 weeks, I dread to think what tricks she’ll have learned by 15 months! Much to our amusement, she’s desperately trying to roll over from back to front, usually accompanied by all manner of unladylike grunts of exertion…

If we hear anything about the competition (yeah right!), I’ll obviously blog about it here. Not getting my hopes up but… imagine the blogging from New York City…!

February Ramblings

As every new parent will know, the first few months with a new baby are fairly manic. Some days, it gets to about 5pm and I think, ‘What have I actually done today?’ Usually the answer involves feeding, nappy changing and playing.

Luckily, we seem to have quite a chilled out baby, which means we can still get out and about at the weekends. Our latest discovery is the bowling alley in Hadfield. Bear in mind that this is a tiny town, with one main street of a few shops, a couple of cafes, one bakery, a couple of takeaways, a post office and a butchers. Yet, we have a bowling alley.

We went there for Aidan’s birthday; when we arrived, there was our group and a seven year old’s birthday party…

Aidan’s been upping the amount of West German pottery he’s been listing each week.

It’s great fun watching it end each week! The latest pots are all from boxes we have still not unwrapped from last year’s Germany trips, so it’s exciting to open them up. The quality of the pottery seems to be improving with each box. My only complaint is the amount of parcels I now have to carry to the post office each week… How old will Corliss need to be before she can carry one or two?!

Next month, my aim is to get more listed myself on eBay; to not buy as much from eBay; go for a walk every other day, whatever the weather; write a few more blogs… We’ve got lots of new and interesting pieces of pottery and glass about the house. I WILL find the time to photograph them and share the pictures.

Baby Owl Ski

Baby Owl Ski has arrived! Baby Corliss arrived this week, a huge baby girl weighing in at 9lbs 5oz. We’re all doing well – the Potsandpots eBay empire has even continued to trade and Corliss has had her first trip to the post office already. It may be some time before I get back into regular posting so bye for now!