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Transatlantic Wedding Message

admin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:44:54 +0000

Both the Old Dear and Trnce have made it safely ¹ across the Atlantic to Hornby Island where tomorrow my brother will be getting married!

It’s a very small affair, but even if the world and his wife had been invited we wouldn’t have been able to make it, so before he went to bed this evening, Curig helped me put together a little video message for the happy couple.

A Transatlantic Wedding Message from Dave Stacey on Vimeo.

We all wish you the very best guys. Hope you have a great day and we can’t wait to celebrate with you when you make it back over to these parts!

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1 I say that. I know the Old Dear made it there. No word yet from Trnce. Given the issues he had getting to the airport I was half expecting a news report that a 747 had encountered a problem on the runway and that a balding gentlemen was being escorted away from the airport having offered to fix it by ‘hitting it a few times with this hammer’. I haven’t heard that, so I’m going to assume that he made it there. Or at least, somewhere ↩

Message to the past (or future)

dave — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:44:48 +0000

Very strange now my form have left. Still seeing a few of them around the place, and some have ‘friended’* me on facebook, but in some cases I suspect I may only see them once or twice more before they go off.

All this year’s form tutor’s have been asked to write a piece for the yearbook, which I did happily (after three drafts) and post below for posterity (and maybe to come back to in five years!)

Ah, my form, how we’ve changed over the last five years. You, growing up (changing beyond recognition in some cases), losing the squeeky voices (well, most of you…) and going off into the big bad world (or sixth form). Me, with a few more grey hairs, two kids and perhaps a few better ideas about how to be a form tutor (although no better organised)

Thanks for putting up with the crazier ideas (“right, now everyone’s going to have a job….”), being upended from our nice South Block room to the computer room and finally the cookery room, and for my general lack of organisation (“I did have some letters for you… er… “). I’m not going to start naming people or events, because I’d leave someone or something out and I don’t want to risk that, but whatever you go on to next, good luck, stay in touch*, and if you ever find yourself in the teaching profession, I hope your first form are as great as you lot were.

All the best,

Mr S

* Although not in a stalker type way, like some of you did to that poor student teacher we had last year!

*I shudder a bit when I type that, but can’t think of anything better at the moment

blogging guilt

dave — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:40:57 +0000

Probably ought to have blogged more, especially in Aeddan’s first few weeks, but I’m conscious of how Facebook, Twitter and the hundreds of photos we’ve taken have served just as well (if not better) as a repository for his development. I’d still like to come up with a way of better using this blog though. Might try a bit of a challenge next month, see if I can get into a new habit.

Curig’s sweepstake

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:40:54 +0000

I’m thinking I’m probably going to be reviving this blog in the coming weeks as Baby number 2 approaches due date, and in the update I’ll probably delete the protopage I’ve had at davestacey.co.uk for a while and just redirect here. But before I do, I want to preserve the guesses that we had in Curig’s birth sweep-stake. Here were the suggestions:

We think it’s a girl…
Steve Davies
Rhys Dart
Emma Francis
Rhian Tal
Lowri Morris
James Cobb
Janet Bowen
Carolyn Rowlands
Sali Earls
Emma Smith
Geraint Edwards
Catrin Heledd
Robert Earls
Cathryn Beynon

We think it’s a boy…
Richard Cornish
Nerys Williams
Nia Cole Jones
James Hart
Catrin Howells
Laura Kelly
Julia Stacey
Maria Stacey
Lisa Beigan
Peter Stacey
Terry Stacey
Louise Jones
Amy Brown
Cerys Gruffydd
Nick Francis
Alex Jolliffe
Doug Belshaw
Ayshea Chaudhry
Luke Pettitt
Matthew Streeter
Lowri Sian
Meleri Davies

Weight Guesses:
6lbs 2oz – Rhian Tal
6lbs 8oz – Luke Pettitt
7lbs 3/4 oz – James Cobb
7lbs 1oz – Janet Bowen
7lbs 2oz – Steve Davies, Carolin Rowlands, Amy Brown, NIck Francis, Catrin Heledd
7lbs 3oz – Catrin Howells & Cerys Gruffydd
7lbs 4oz – Nerys Williams, Maria Stacey, Ayshea Chaudhry & Cathryn Beynon
7lbs 5oz – Nia Cole Jones
7lbs 6oz – Emma Francis, Lisa Beigan & Geraint Edwards
7lbs 7oz – Peter Stacey
7lbs 8oz – Rhys Dart & Lowri Morris
7lbs 9oz – Julia Stacey & Doug Belshaw
7lbs 10oz – Terry Stacey & Alex Jollifffe
7lbs 12oz – Lowri Sian
8lbs – Emma Smith
8lbs 1oz – Rob Earls
8lbs 2oz – Laura Kelly & Sali Earls & Louise Jones
8lbs 3oz – Matthew Streeter
8lbs 8oz – Richard Cornish
9lbs – James Hart

Date Guesses:
16th Nov – 10am – Emma Smith
19th Nov – 5.30am – Laura Kelly / 12 midday – Rhys Dart
20th Nov -3.20am – Rhian Tal
21st Nov – 6.10am – Janet Bowen / 7.00pm – Lowri Sian
22nd Nov -7,17am – Peter Stacey
23rd Nov – 6.27am – Carolyn Rowlands / 6pm – James Cobb
24th Nov -3am – Nerys Williams / 8pm – Steve Davies
25th Nov -1.00pm – Maria Stacey / 3.25pm – Catrin Howells
26th Nov -2am – Doug Belshaw
27th Nov – 8.30am – Alex Jolliffe
28th Nov -11.30 am – Emma Francis
29th Nov – 5am – Luke Pettitt / 5.01am – Robert Earls / 11.30am – Lowri Morris / 2.04pm – Richard Cornish / 11.30pm – Julia Stacey
30th Nov -5.00 am – Meleri Davies / 11.26am – Geraint Edwards / 2.19pm – Amy Brown / 3.05pm – Terry Stacey / 4.30 pm – Nia Cole Jone
1st Dec – 12.30 am – James Hart / 1.11am – Matthew Streeter / 8am – Nick Francis / 6pm – Cerys Gruffydd / 11.30pm – Sali Earls
2nd Dec – 8am – Cathryn Brynon
3rd Dec – 3pm – Lisa Beigan / 11pm – Louise Jones
6th Dec – Catrin Heledd

Hummm… time to revive the idea perhaps?

Found it!!!

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:45:35 +0000

If I’m honest, I never thought I was going to see this blog again. I thought I’d accidentally deleted the database without making a backup and I’d consigned myself to never getting this stuff back.

You have no idea how pleased I am to discover that I was wrong, and it’s still all here, but an autoupgrade seems to have changed a database username and that was the cause of the problem!!!

Curig now Tweeting

dave — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:12:06 +0000

Not sure how long this will last once I’m back in school, but we’ve set Curig up with a Twitter account. Sions and I will update it from time to time with his adventures :0)

You can follow him at twitter.com/curig

Col. Singing.

dave — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:50:35 +0000

Col was the ‘featured artist’ on BBC Radio Devon introducing last night, and by the magic of iplayer, audacity and a small mini-jack to mini-jack lead, I managed to record it.

I doubt he’ll put them up on his site, he’s too bloody fussy, but for anyone else that’s interested, the tracks are below.

You can still buy his EP and see what else he’s up to over at colestacey.net

Somebody said to me.
Somebody said to me

If you
If You

The Boxer
The Boxer

Long time, no blogging

dave — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:39:50 +0000

It’s been nearly a whole year since the last post here, mainly due to the fact that parenthood seems to leave very little time for writing about parenthood. Much of the progress of the last few months can be followed over on Flickr and Twitter.

There’s loads of other online shenanigans that I’ve been meaning to get round to, and failing, including a Twitter account for Curig which we’ll probably set up over half term. Anyway, enough excuses, on with the next post…

Hats

dave — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:41:33 +0000

This afternoon we went for a stroll around Troste. Having had some food, and purchased supplies on Boots we decided to continue strolling and found ourselves upstairs in Debenhams, where I proceeded to try and find a hat that suited me. As I think the follow evidence shows, I failed, and I am coming to terms with the fact that I don’t think I will ever suit hats.
We would have tried a few more, but one of the staff came over and stood close. After a couple of final snaps we took the hint!

Some people like to put fish into the receipe at this stage… don’t do it.

dave — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:02:37 +0000

Been ages since I blogged last, mainly because I’ve been too busy trying to cram everything in to have to stop and write about it. Curig’s doing really well and is now smiling, sitting up by himself and starting to laugh at us (or with us?) The best way to follow his progress if probably through Flickr, and the feed I’m pulling through the the babi tab at davestacey.co.uk

We’ve just spent the morning having some quality babi / dadi time, including trying out some new reusable nappies (him, not me), sorting out pictures and having a dance to Stevie Wonder, which did marvels when he was grizzly with wind. He’s now playing in the playgym while Sions has a shower before we head off out to the shop. We’ve got another family visit tomorrow, so more news and pics I’m sure will follow then, and I may even find time to go back and write about Christmas and New Year. But then again, maybe not

:0)

Oh, the title by the way is from this you-tube clip which he seems to like no end!