Happy New Year!

How is it nearly 2008??!

Millennium New Year we were on a really crappy train coming back from London and Comedy Jim pointed out that as kids we imagined that we’d live on the moon , driving flying cars and eating food in pill format.

2007…..yeah still not doing any of those things

Other than that gripe 2007 has been an eventual year if nothing else, Paul’s become a Director and completed a 10k run, Mini Geek has started school full time and learnt to read and well I’ve managed to end the year without a job!

Happy 2008 to all of you and I hope you have a happy and wonderful year x

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas Everyone!  We’ve had a lovely day, we bought mini geek a digital camera in the hope that she’ll leave our iPhone’s alone (some hope!).  But she’s been taking pictures for England, I’m so proud

This year it’s been great Mini Geek has bit of a phobia about animated films and anything she’s not seen on Cbeebies or Nick Jr. However today we managed through cajoling and hiding under a blankie with her - to watch the end of Finding Nemo, the whole of Polar Express (which is awesome and I have no idea how we’ve missed it!) and the Christmas Dr Who !! And best of all, she loved every single moment of them

Anyway here are  some of my favourite Xmas pictures from this year:

Our House on Christmas Eve

My parents cottage on Christmas Eve

New Blog Links

I’ve been making time recently to hunt around for some new blogs to read. And I’ve come across some really gorgeous blogs written by some really talented women. I’ve really enjoyed all their writing and the pictures are just beautiful a real inspiration for an intermittant blogger like me :). They are all in my ‘Beautiful Blog’ section.
Enjoy!

‘Done One’ X-Files Sequel

Okay I’ve noticed that I seem to be getting a lot of traffic from Google re the new X-files Movie.

So here’s a quick round up of what I’ve seen in the last few days on the web:

It’s probably called ‘Done One’ on the entry for the BC Filming List this is the entry for current filming:

DONE ONE

The Crying Box Productions Inc. (anagram for Ten Thirteen Productions and the address given is as 1013 productions at the studios in N.Vancouver)

Exec. Prod: Brent O’Connor

DOP: Bill Roe

PD: Mark Freeborn

PM: Wayne Bennett

PC: Jennifer Metcalf

LM: Deb Bose

ALM: Sean Finnan

SPFX Coord::
David Gauthier (Did all the SFX for X-Files)

Casting: Correen Mayrs /Heike Brandstatter (Did all the casting for X-Files as well)

Extras: Lisa Ratke

Sched: Dec 10/07 - Mar 03/08

So I think we can safely assume that’s them!

Casting:

Amanda Peet (Studio 60 - yea!), Callum Keith Rennie (BSG & Due South - YEAH!) , Xzibit (hmmm), Billy Connolly (WHAT?!?!) have all been cast in the movie.

It’s currently filming in Vancouver and Pemberton

There are some great on set pictures and some video of David Duchovny and Amanda Peet here ( no Gillian Anderson though as she’s off to India for her Christmas)

http://www.flynetonline.com/2007/12/the-truth-is-in-vancouver/#more

There is an ebay auction to win a trip to the set

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230203693094

Geek husband however won’t give me 6k so I can win the auction though - meanie!!!

Best Christmas Tree 2007

I thought that ours was rather sweet and extra nice as it was the first year Mini Geek had decorated it all by herself.

And then we went to the Cathedral to see her nativity play and this gigantic gorgeous tree was standing over the children.

I have tree envy But I still love our tree as my gorgeous girl did it.

Christmas Dr Who

Now for some reason I’d kind of forgotten that this was going to be on?  Work and Christmas Shopping have seriously been getting the way of my Christmas TV planning.  Like all Brits of a certain age, I need a Radio Times and a highlighter pen to plan Christmas

However today I came across this very fabby article in The Times written by fellow Dr Who Addict Caitlin Moran which reminded me it was on and actually made it sound like Kylie was actually going to be good and not a Christmas gimmick.  And then I found the full Christmas Trailer on the BBC YouTube mini site and it does look AMAZING!  Check the trailer here

Also David Tennant is looking rather gorgeous

Getting Bigger

Betty is longer a little baby, she’s now 15 weeks……..I’m guessing she’s going to end up quite big