Adam Bird - My Personal Blog

One of the most exciting times of any pregnancy is the 20 week scan. Today Steph and I went up to Darenth to have ours. We were both really looking forward to this, especially Steph. She has been feeling a little depressed about the fact that she had the first scan so early, hence the "Shrimp" moniker, but we can finally lay that to rest! Both of us were really quite nervous, although we never mentioned it to each other before hand! I could see Steph breathing quickly when she was laying on the bed waiting for the machine to kick in and for the baby to reveal itself! It was definitely worth the 21 week, (and 1 day) wait as we caught glimpses of the babies face as it yawned and it's arms waved as it fidgeted in the warmth of Steph's womb. It was interesting to see the nurse use the high tech equipment measuring the babies head, and body making sure all was as it should be - so far so good. We could have been told whether we were expecting a baby boy or a baby girl, b...

Another year, another birthday! I don't feel particularly 26ish today, but the grey hair is starting to show! Never mind - only four more years until I am 30!

Every so often Stephanie will get a full weekend off, which is great for the pair of us as we don't really see each other very often nowadays! It may seem a crazy thing to say, but for the pair of us it definitely seems that way! We decided therefore we would take advantage of the gorgeous weather and head for the coast for the day! I wasn't sure where we ought to go. I remember as a kid we always used to go to Margate with my grandparents on my Mum's side of the family, whilst my Dad's parents always seemed to take us to Dymchurch! So naturally I thought to go to either of those places, and opted for Margate, purely because of the whole Dreamland experience - even though it is experiencing difficult times at the moment! (This website is an interesting read if anyone feels like reminiscing!). So how we ended up in Herne Bay was a mystery to me! I guess I had a last minute change of mind as we driving down there or something! I always remember the most exciting part of ...

For those people who are viewing this blog in Internet Explorer you will probably not know what I am talking about, but I am after some help! If you view this page in Firefox you will see that the red and black background is missing, and only appears as a small rectangle at the top of the page! Somehow I need to fix the stylesheet code or <div> tags, but have tried everything (except the thing that fixes it) and still no luck! I would appreciate any advice!

I may well be behind millions of other people in the world who have been "blogging" or creating online diaries since the start of the internet, but I am glad to say that I have now finally managed to introduce a decent blogging "plugin" to my website. My website has been live now for just over two years, and in that time I have tried to work out just how to introduce a blog facility to the site. The discussion forum didn't really work, as it wasn't very well syndicated, but now after months of exploring different methods I am hopeful that I have succeeded! Using the excellent Blogger.com I have created an account which allows me to use my own template and host my own blog on my own site - what more could a webgeek want (they would probably want to build the whole progamme by themselves...)? Anyway, I will hopefully be posting on here now whenever I can, and whenever I feel like writing. I certainly have stuff to write about, what with learning new things a...