This Page Is Intentionally Left Blank

Believe it or not, this is the text that IBM actually print on a blank page in their manuals ( well, what they consider blank in their world - i.e. a page with text on it ). I use this phrase because while I have no updates from the exciting world of the McKendry's sofa, I feel I should be updating the blog. Is this because I feel inspired ? No, it is because it feels like a Sunday night before I have to hand in my term paper on Monday morning. This essay has to be handed in, as my editor Kate Duthie has sent me another reminder. It says " hell must have frozen over I guess since it's that long since you added anything to your blog as predicted in my quote 'hell will freeze over before Fraser adds another entry to his blog'. Idiot. " Kate must have added a new journalist to her staff, as her husband Rob has also sent me a kind reminder " The only image I have of you guys is one in my head of Fraser's arse hanging out of the fridge interspersed with him locked up in the spare room working from home. What the hell have you been up to. How is Lily doin' at high school now ? ".
I was hoping to pad out my essay by inserting lots of cute photos of our gal, but we discovered this week that the two rolls of 36 exposure films we had taken over the last 2 months, came back blank from the Boots, the chemist. I can hear all of your with digital cameras yelling " that cannot happen with a digital camera " but I am choosing to ignore you. Feel free to email me when you have accidentally erased all of your photos, or the hard disk you copied everything to has crashed and it costs you $ 500 to get them all back. As you can tell I am slightly miffed. I should have bought a digital camera.

Well, my office is up and running, with all sorts of technical kit that has taken me some time to understand and then install. VoIP phone adpaters, Wireless ADSL routers, faxes, scanners, answering machine, laptops, desktops, mobile phones, DVD writers, and too many manuals. I am from small town NZ, what is this stuff all about? No worries, should have sold the lot of it down the pub by the end of the week.

The McKendry's London Branch have basically just been out and about visiting friends, and staying out for the weekend. The poor gal has spent the last 4 weekends in a travel cot, which has seen her sleeping in the most strange yoga, and SAS stress positions. Still, apparently they do not remember the first 18 years of their lives or something, so it shouldn't traumatise her.

The wife is getting herself prepared for Donald and Meline's upcoming wedding in New York this September, so has been shopping for outfits, having haircuts, and booking her grooming session in at the Virgin Atlantic Upper Class lounge, or whatever it is called. After every shopping trip she then says " oh, I am going to miss Lily so much when I am away for 4 days " and then bursts into tears. I then look at all of the receipts and then I burst into tears. Any chance of bringing the wedding forward Donald ?

Right, I had better get back to looking at manuals and press a button or two.

" Aw, not even, ow "

Below are photos of Gabriella and Lily, when we went to visit Gabby's drunken parents Jon and Kate in Oxford. Photos were taken by Kate, and guess what she used? That's right, a digital camera.