Nick’s Gorrilas photo (‘Tiff’ on Flickr) has been featured in The Daily Mail and The Express, and on the Daily Mail’s website. Well done Nick – it is a fantastic photo 
Don’t forget the little people when you’re rich and famous, will you?
EDIT: And yes, it’s on the Express’s website now too.
Our good friends (of far too many years to mention), Keith and Jenny, got married on Friday. Huge congratulations to you both from Mary, Harry, the bump and me, and thanks for a lovely day. The sight of two of my oldest friends being delivered in the back of a tuk-tuk will be with me for a very long time indeed. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Kary and Nick who did the whole ‘I will’ thing on Saturday. It was a superb day, and ‘my wife and I’ wish the new couple the very best of luck in their new life. The now-customary gallery site is up and running at http://gallery.20thoctober.co.uk. If you were there and have photos to share, please get in touch with Anthony or me and we’ll sort out upload access.
HUGE congratulations to Ian and Alex on the birth of their baby boy, Peter Joseph, who arrived Tuesday evening.
The news quickly demonstrated the difference between men and women. Whilst I was making jokes about father and son’s similar hairlines, Mary was asking all the right questions (9:42pm, 7lb 9oz).
The official news is over at Ian’s site – which surely must be due a name change now?
2 bits of news about people I know.
First, after many, many, many years of excruciatingly hard work, my good friend Mike is now a real qualified doctor. As his celebratory SMS to me said, “don’t get sick in Cornwall!”. I, however, can think of no better place… Congratulations Mike from all of us here at Fretnoise (that’ll be me and the wife, then…)
Secondly, my other good friend Ian is rapidly preparing to welcome 2 new family members into the home. He’s been blogging about his impending fatherhood for a while over at The Expectant Father (22 days and counting!), and now he’s expanding his empire by starting a blog about the arrival of his new puppy, Bernard. Professor Bernard Armstrong, to give him his full name. You can follow his adventures at The Adventures of Professor Bernard Armstrong and other Miniature Schnauzer Stories (snappy 
) ).
A while ago, my good friend Ian set about writing a blog about all kinds of nothing. In the fullness of time, that blog drifted into nothingness as the domain was detagged and blogging took a back seat in the jetset lifestyle of our very own ‘young Sting’.
But he’s back! With the arrival of his baby a mere 118 days away, Ian is blogging once more on life, the universe and impending fatherhood over at The Expectant Father, so go and check him out and offer kind words of advice and/or encouragement.
Yep – Monty the Snowman has gone – maybe to reappear along with other inaccurate seasonal clich�s next year
Quite a busy, and, it has to be said, fun weekend. Birthday celebrations went well on Friday (albeit with the slight inconvenience of lost car keys), and it was great to see that special someone Then there was more pubness last night, and even more this afternoon (without beer though, as I was driving). Occasional visitors to my humble abode will also be glad to note that my CD collection is no longer on the floor… woohoo \o/
I am led to believe (by this fantastic site) that the bright thing in the sky at the moment is Jupiter – by the way…
Happy New Year everyone – I hope you had a good one, and that the new year holds all that you expect and want it to. I’m not so sure why we, as a society, look to the ticking over of one figure on our home-made time system as a new start and some kind of punctuation mark, but we all do. You hear a lot of talk about fresh starts and clean leaves – I would rather not be doing something that needs restarting or cleaning in the first place…
Anyway, the new year does indeed hold a fair bit for myself and a few of the people around me. Good luck to everyone who needs it – congratulations to everyone who deserves it, and best wishes one and all
Oh dear me, one of those days…
But made up for by a stonking performance by MUSE, which in turn was made even better by a special guest appearance… Just one question…. when did balloons full of confetti become ‘rock’n'roll’?
“Everything about you is so easy to love…”
Ok ok… I’m not too good at this blogging business. Erm – we had another day out yesterday – Whipsnade this time to see (amongst other things) a certain goat. It’s Metallica x 2 next weekend, and I am getting really quite excited 
. Keep an eye on that countdown \m/