my fabulous hen!

So, the dress in action! The classiness was lost slightly by the trademark "L" plates that a bride-to-be is typically adorned with but I was happy to go along with it, every one of my hens put in so much effort and we had a fabulous night. Even mother hen was on top form for a good evening (spot her to the left in the background of the pic on the far right!). Then you see myself and two of my fantastic bridesmaids who both made speeches during the meal and made me bubble like a little girl! The performance of Chicago at His Majesty's Theatre was beyond brilliant, I loved it, so much! We got a lot of looks in the dress circle from the other theatre goers, I can only assume they were jealous of our fabulous costumery and also the fact that we had the best seats in the house (it pays to have a bridesmaid who works for the marketing department of the theatre who was able to reserve our seats nearly a year in advance!!)

...and here you see the beautiful brideS-to-be, this is my cousin Lynsey, she gets married 2 weeks before me in the same church in St. Andrews. It's going to be a great year for family and parties! She helped me dance until the wee small hours and I've just received an email from her bridesmaids inviting me along for her hen where I can return the favour! Can't wait!!

...finally a pic of most of my wonderful hens celebrating after the theatre with a G&T in Under the Hammer (missing from this pic are Mother Hen, Auntie Babs, Auntie Sus and the delightful Viv. We let them rest their weary legs in the only free seats so they could knock back a nice glass of vino while we waited for our table at the Stage Door to be made ready for us.)

Thank you to all (especially my lovely maids), the evening exceded all my expectations and I'll treasure it for always.

once bitten, twice shy :(

A word to the wise...if you partake of the wee glass of vino whilst surfing the wonderful web on your lovely iBook, be very careful not to rest your glass on the arm of the sofa near said laptop which is perched on one's lap :(

As you may have guessed I did just this, and needless to say said glass of vino toppled, spilling wine onto beautiful iBook. It made a nasty noise, I turned it off in a panic, (in the hope that it would limit the damage), and set it out upside down, like a pitched tent, to dry.

This was two months ago, laptop didn't like the wine very much and the insurance company stated it was "beyond economical repair" which, in turn, meant I got a lovely new MacBook (bonus upgrade!). Though not without paying the policy excess and losing any no-claims bonus.

But still I was quite happy with my new computer.

Today, however, I shed a little tear to the random I was speaking to on the phone regarding the attempted retrieval of the data on my old hard drive (how embarrassing, but it really couldn't be helped as you will come to understand). I had payed the fee to get my hard drive info retrieved and saved to disk, this should have taken a week, that was three and a half weeks ago. I phoned to check the status of the retrieval...I suspected, due to the lack of contact, it was unsuccessful...I was right...they couldn't do it...then the tears...all the pics of my baba, lost and gone, no back up (because no matter how many people tell you to do it, I defy any new mum to find the time to back up all the pics on their computer whilst looking after baby and trying to find the time to sleep!).


I am hoping that if I send out a plea to friends and family I will manage to retrieve some percentage of the pics and will be able to build up a new collection.

My plan is to do any touch-up's required on Photoshop, save them to disk and then send them off to the lab to get some high quality prints done (something I should have done ages ago!) Then I will adorn the house with them!

I love photos, I live for pictures and I miss them, but I still have my wee fella, he's a beautiful picture in himself everyday and that's what's important.

Lesson's learnt:

* Back up stuff from your 'puter
* Print your pics out and put them somewhere you can see them everyday
* Use film (it's always better anyway - not denying digital doesn't have it's place but I'm a traditionalist at heart)

and

* Stop drinking wine ...near your computer!


My little Boo, day one, in the maternity hospital (photo courtesy of Sarah, thank you honey!)