Evans-Amsri

If anyone out there knows of a solution to this horrible problem then please drop me a line. This has plagued me for too long.

Almost a year to the day, and I have a chest infection again! These cold and damp winters are not good for my health. I am surprised I did not write about it last year, but then I was very bad. At the moment my chest is not too bad. Maybe it is the flu jab that I had this year that is reducing it's effect, maybe not. Someday I will be able to live and work in a dryer, warmer climate.

One of William's lower front teeth has made an appearance. Very sharp it is too. He will be feeding from the bottle very soon I think!

William was 7 months old yesterday and he sits up by himself now. He is a a happy little baby. He spends many hours chattering away. Baa baa baa baa baa baa... Cute eh? Oh! And blowing rasberrys!

I have added a link on my family website for Jeep's recipes. So far we have only published one: Spicey Thai Salmon - delicious. Click on the Evans-Amsri home page link on the right to visit our home. I have also uploaded many recent photos of William and PJ, all taken during November. Click on the Flickr banner on our home page or the menu link 'Photo albums' also from our home page. This month sees a 15 day festival that takes place every year from the 1st Decmber in Udon Thani called 'Tung Sri Mueng'. The festival's purpose is to promote local produce and enterprise, as well as to have fun! It is a very colourful and noisy affair. Here is a link http://web.udru.ac.th/event/gallery/tung_sri_mueng/ displaying a slide show of many photos of this festival.

Loi Krathong is an annual festival in Thailand. On the night of the 16th of November, Thai's all around the country make elaborate floats, usually made from banana leaves, decorated with flowers, candles and sparklers. The candles and sparklers are lit and then the whole decoration is floated down river. Some Thais will even attach some of their hair or finger nail, so as to float aware their troubles. To see some photos of this years Loi Krathong festival please visit http://travel.sanook.com/bangkok/bangkok_08545.php? ? Though this site is in Thai, the pictures more than make up for it.

We had our first frost of this winter last night, and again tonight. Perhaps a sign of the winter ahead?

I received my first ever Flu jab yesterday, free, courtesy of the NHS. Last year I had a bad case of Flu, and subsequently a severe chest infection. This left me asthmatic, hence my entitlement to a free NHS Flu inoculation. Hopefully, I won't suffer to the extent that I did last winter.

Well, finally I have launched version 2. Not yet complete, but it does give me plenty of options for the future. I have avoided using Javascript, Tables & Frames for markup, relying on HTML/CSS only. I am in the process of learning Javascript. I am looking forward to adding extra functionality using Javascript. There is also much more content to be added too. Our new website can be found at: http://www.amsri.co.uk . Please pay us a visit and sign our Guestbook.

Today William finally managed to turn himself over onto his stomach by himself. Once he realised he could do this he did it many times. Today he is 5 days short of being 5 months old.

I've discovered Eric Meyer - http://www.meyerweb.com - the man is pure CSS/HTML genius! I bought his two books - Eric Meyer On CSS and More Eric Meyer On CSS . They are both worth the money if you are interested in designing and writing your own website. Both books are full of practical examples. Now I must get on with my family website. ;-)

Boy! I'm having fun! I have almost completed my first month in my new job. William is growing fast and is now 4 months old. Version 2 of my website is coming along. I have found some interesting links, more on this later. Finally, in this last week, I have stepped into the Internet Marketing arena again. I was looking for a site to host my website and I found this - http://www.website.ws/evansamsri/ . Website hosting AND a money earner. All for US$10 per month. Another site, more for our Thai readers really. Not sure how well it works but it should get better with time - http://suparsit.com/index1.php . For all you Thais out there, try it. It's free! Please let me know how you get on with it.

While walking towards the swing-bridge in Ramsey harbour, there ahead of me and to my great surprise was 'Badger' waiting to enter the inner harbour. 'Badger' is a Benford designed 34' sailing dory, made famous (in sailing circles) by Annie Hill in her excellent book 'Voyaging On A Small Income'. The new owners of Badger - Alan and Gloria Parsons - were sailing her to a Junk Rig Association meeting in Scotland. On route from their home in Cumbria they decided to have a short stop-over in the Isle of Man. I am pleased they did. Having already read both Annie's books, I was keen to see this wonderful boat first hand. Here she was sailing into my home town! I quickly made may aquaintance to Alan and Gloria. They stayed for a few days in Ramsey before continuing their voyage, and I was fortunate enough not only to make new friends but to go aboard 'Badger' and admire her fully. What a week!

My 50th birthday came and went. I celebrated my half-century with a party at home. With memories of the 70s in mind, I chose a Hawaiian theme. Why? Well for those who are not old enough to remember there was an American police drama on TV based on a police department in Hawaii. It's title was "Hawaii Five-O". The traditional English BBQ did not go down well with people as much as Jeep's Thai food. Which was a hit! So, we have decided to hold a Thai buffet party for future events, and leave the English BBQ to others to organise. The Manx summer is fast drawing to a close and the mountain heather is starting to bloom. Those hills are turning purple. Autumn (fall) is on its way!

I have posted some more baby pictures of William today and a few of PJ. All of them can be found on the 'New Baby Photos' page.

Jeep and baby Liam came home yesterday. It's great hearing the cry of a new born babe. They don't do a lot though - poo, eat and sleep in rapid rotation. He's keeping Jeep busy. PJ gets extra cuddles from me, so he's happy too.

Jeep phoned me this morning; she tells me the hospital will allow her and William to come home today - Saturday. A couple more photos of Liam added to 'New Baby Photos'.

William (Liam) was born at 21:59 Thursday 12th of May, at Noble's Hospital, Isle of Man. He weighed in at 7.4lbs (3.29kg). Both Jeep and Liam are doing well. To view some baby photos click on http://homepages.manx.net/amsri/album_08.htm .

Still no sign of the baby making an appearance, much to Jeep's dismay. We will see the consultant again at Nobles hospital this afternoon.

We made another visit to the hospital on Wednesday morning. Jeep now has a CTG of the baby three times a week. The Consultant believes the baby will arrive by the weekend. Jeep feels that the baby's arrival is near too. So we could have a busy weekend in store.