2006 on Ricky Moorhouse

The Santa dilemma

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

To Santa or not to Santa - that is the question!

This year, Abi isn't old enough to understand much of whats going on at Christmas, but we're soon going to have to make a decision about what we're going to do about Santa. I just don't like the idea of lying (directly or indirectly) to her about it. I guess I'm slightly worried that if she sees us making up something like this and then her finding out later whether she'll doubt other things that we've told her. On the other hand - Santa would bring a lot of enjoyment and excitement for her (and us), and stimulate her imagination. What does anyone else think about this? Am I just being silly?

CSS and XHTML Workshop

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:08:23 +0000

This week I spent the first night away from Laura and Abi, since Abi was born. I went up to London for the Carson Workshops In Depth CSS XHTML Techniques by Eric Meyer. I was quite nervous beforehand - as well as being away, the first day of the course was also when Abi had her first set of immunisations.

I'm glad I went as the workshop was brilliant. It was run in a very interactive way with Eric encouraging questions throughout. He only used slides for setting the scene for the 2 days, and the rest of the time was spent looking at source code and how it appeared in a web browser. We covered quite a few things that I'd already seen before, but there were lots of bits and pieces that were different or I hadn't done before. The main thing that got me thinking was to first think about the document source order and the best markup to describe the content, without thinking about the design. I've done a bit of this before, but always wanted to get onto adding the design, so probably rushed this stage more than I possibly should have - and resulted in a lot more divs and classes in my document source than was necessary!

Well that was an exciting nappy change...

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:32:24 +0000

Firstly I'll set the scene, earlier in the evening we'd given Abigail a bath, and Laura had fed her, and since then she'd been sleeping. After we'd finished watching TV Laura was ready to feed her again before we went up to bed. Well when I say ready I mean dripping milk! Abi was still sleeping, and I noticed that she was a bit smelly, so I decided to change her to wake her up a bit so she was ready to catch the milk.

Introducing...

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Announcing the birth of...

Abigail Ione Moorhouse

on Sunday 8th October 2006 at 21:01

Update...

She weighed 5 lb 12 oz and was born at home in the birthing pool, just as we'd hoped. This was a particular answer to prayer, as earlier the midwives had told us that there was a possibility we would have to go into the birthing centre, as the labour ward was short staffed.
However God provided us with 2 excellent midwives who were keen to ensure we had the home birth that we wanted, and they battled for us for it with the hospital.

2 Minutes apart

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:20:40 +0000

Contractions are now 2 minutes apart and lasting between 60 and 90 seconds. The midwifes are here just assessing here...more later

hope it's not much longer!

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:35:32 +0000

Yesterday things were quite variable after the initial burst of activity.

While we were waiting for the midwife we had a surprise visit from Michael at the door, which threw us completely as he didn't look much like a midwife! By the time the midwife arrived the contractions had died down quite a bit, but she checked the usual stuff and Laura's temperature and all seemed fine.

Last night though, Laura had a very disturbed night and is now very tired, but the contractions are coming stronger. She's been finding it quite tough, but is doing really well. Thank you to those of you that are praying for us - it's greatly appreciated and I'm sure it makes a difference.

Labour has started...

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Laura has gone into labour - I think it all started about 1 o'clock in the morning. She woke me up at about 5 o'clock and told me that they were getting more regular. I was completely out of it and didn't understand what she was telling me until I'd got up and come downstairs! I thought we were supposed to be going somewhere!

Well she's now all wired up to her TENS machine and contractions seem to be about every 4 minutes. We've also got the birthing pool fully inflated and ready to fill.

Butternut squash risotto

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:00:00 +0000

After seeing that one of the contestents on Masterchef this week had cooked butternut squash risotto, it made us fancy it ourselves. I had a look for a recipe in some of the usual places, and then decided to make one myself (with a little help from the example risotto on the back of the rice packet).

1 Onion (finely chopped)
Handful of mushrooms (chopped)
1 litre of light vegetable stock

Free Bible Software for Windows

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

After talking about different bible software with some people at life group on Sunday, I thought I'd do a bit more investigation into some of the free bible software available. The main software I've looked at so far is: In the beginning was the Word, The SWORD Project (for Windows). I also tried MyBible - but didn't get past the installation, as it failed to download the texts.

Here's my initial findings, I intend to investigate some others and post some more details as I use them a bit more later on...

Four Years and counting!

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This weekend Laura and I celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary by having a nice relaxing weekend away over at my parents caravan on Hayling Island (more on that to follow). It's amazing how time has flown by in these four years, but it's been wonderful and lots of different things in each one of them!

2002 - 2003 - My Graduation, preparing for Uruguay
2003 - 2004 - Mostly in Uruguay

Previous Post removed...

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

...awaiting new content...

Matthew 18:5

Finally got my wireless (WPA) to work in Ubuntu

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:27:43 +0000

Last weekend I finally got my laptop to talk to my wireless network in Ubuntu, I'd tried following some instructions before when I had Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) on the laptop, but never got anywhere with it. I know I could have changed my network to use WEP instead, but I didn't want to have to change too much just to get my laptop to work occasionaly when I booted into Linux.

Less than 2 months to go!

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:01:09 +0000

Time is flying by - Laura is now 32 weeks pregnent so we've got less than 2 months left before our little daughter is due to arrive. It's exciting and at the same time scary! I'm really looking forward to being a dad, but it's quite daunting at the same time

The other morning before I went to work, Laura was very tired and had drifted back off to sleep, I put my hand on her bump, and our little baby recognised my hand there and started kicking (or poking) my hand - It was lovely!

This site as a graph

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Generated using the generator at Aharef.info

Interesting image of the site - Of course - having put this post here will probably change what the result is anyway!

Here's the explanation of the colours:

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)

green: for the DIV tag

violet: for images (the IMG tag)

yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)

We've moved!

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:32:12 +0000

It's now almost a month since we moved house, but I've been meaning to blog about our hectic week as we moved for a while! We completed fairly late on the Friday, and booked the removals for the Wednesday in order to give us time to get the bits and pieces done that we wanted to sort out before we moved in.

The first thing that we had planned was for someone to come in and check for woodworm, as that had come up on the survey, so we'd booked them in Friday afternoon thinking that if we'd completed at lunchtime we'd have the keys in plenty of time - as it was it was quite tight for time, but worked out ok. Unfortunately though they found traces of woodworm, so we needed to get it treated and they wouldn't have been able to do it in time - so we booked another company to come and do it on the Tuesday morning. We'd decided that we would need to clean the carpets before moving our stuff in and reserved the carpet cleaner for Monday (also when NTL were coming to install the phone and broadband).

We're Expecting!

Sun, 14 May 2006 19:56:17 +0000

It's very exciting, Laura is now 19 weeks pregnent so we're nearly halfway there. We're due on October 6th, although the scans have put it a bit later so we'll see. It's been so amazing to see our little baby on the scans and how (s)he's growing.

On my birthday as we settled down to watch "The Legend of Zorro" we both felt the baby kick for the first time (although Laura had felt movements earlier) - what a nice birthday present! Since then, there's been a lot more kicking and moving, and it's been wonderful to feel it from time to time. This morning at church just as the preacher was coming to the end of the Sermon, he was talking about being a willing volunteer for God - and the baby got quite excited and started moving and kicking quite a bit - it was almost like it was a response

New Site Launch: Latin Mission

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I've been working on a new community website which I've just launched:

Latin Mission is a new community site for people with an interest in Christian work in Latin America. It currently consists of:

Forums

The forum is a place members can discuss recent events, their Latin American experiences or even seek prayer support.

News

The news section collects news from across the internet and filters it to show news items relating to Latin America. The sources currently include BBC News, Google News, Newsvine and Christian News Service