fordie’s Blog

It was Isla’s and my Birthday yesterday. My sister Anna bought Isla a Fisher Price “Kid Tough” Digital Camera which she gave her on Saturday when we all met up in London after going on the London Eye. Isla was thrilled to bits with her camera, and actually she’s taken some pretty good photos (considering [...]

This morning I added a box at the top of the blog entitled “what’s fordie up to now?” this takes a feed from Twitter. Twitter is one of the many social network type websites, the idea of this one is that you can let your friends (and complete strangers) know what you’re doing right now. [...]

We’ve had a Sky+ box for getting on for a year now and so far I’ve been impressed with it. For those that don’t know, a Sky+ box is a digital satellite receiver with a built in PVR; it has two tuners so you can watch one channel and record another, or record two channels [...]

I’ve not been online much over the last week or so. I’ve been off work prior to starting my new job on Monday, so I’ve not been keeping up to date with my usual feeds or reading any blogs. A few minutes a go I decided to check my stats for this site & saw [...]

This Friday is going to be my last day with SSP. I’ve been with the company for over eight years so it’s a big change for me. It all seems very real now. I am looking forward to starting my new job, it’s an exciting opportunity for me as I’ll be working on some pretty [...]

My blog posts are like buses, you get none for ages then three come along at once. I’ve just launched a new website all about me: markford.me.uk The new site will not replace this one, I’ll still continue to blog here; markford.me.uk is more for people who want to know about my background and maybe [...]

Time has just flown by over the past few weeks; Erin is now over a month old and is doing really well. Generally she is only up for one feed during the night, however that can take anything up to two hours which has taken some getting used too. She still seems to be putting [...]

Erin seems to be doing really well; when she was weighed last Tuesday she was 8lb 9.5oz so she’d put on 8.5oz in just over a week. The health visitor has been out to see her Today and she’s pleased with her progress. Erin is feeding well, but for some reason seems to find it [...]

We took Erin back to hospital Today so that that the paediatrician could give her the once over and make sure that the faint heart murmur that they heard yesterday was nothing to worry about. She was checked over by two doctors; the junior doctor said she thought she could maybe hear something very feint, [...]

Well we made it home. At about half three this afternoon the latest addition to the family arrived in the house. Laura & Erin Very nearly had to stay an extra night in hospital, because Erin has a faint heart murmur. Fortunately we where able to talk the doctor into letting us go home, we’ve [...]