I am writing this because he gave me something, and it just made me realise just how much I love my brother and that it has absolutly nothing to do with what he just gave me?

He asked me a week or two back if I wanted a copy of Windows 7 home premium to which I said yes but never mentioned it again and forgot about it until he called with a card for our anniversary on Sunday saying here is a copy of Windows 7….! A material ‘gift’ but sort of sums up to me what he is all about!

My brother is a “giver” whether it be time, advice, help, support etc you name it my brother would move heaven and earth to help the people he loves and asks for nothing in return. It is so reasuring to know that if I picked a phone up or called at his house he would stop what he was doing just to talk to me.

Although as kids we may have had a typical sibling relationship or should I say rivalry I think he certainly has become the person I most respect and apart from Jamie is the first person I would turn to in a crisis because I know he would be there for me!

I see him as the head of the family, the person we all call because he’ll know what to do, we are all looked after by him!

He will read this, and yes I will be embarrassed the next time I see him because these are things I would never say to him in person but I know more than most that lifes too short not to tell the people you love how you feel because you might regret not saying it one day…

Proud to call you “R KID” and thanks for everything you do!

We have noticed over the last couple of days that Reagan is not interested in her morning bottle and if she does have a drink of it, it’s not very much and we’re wasting the rest, she is however very interested in my breakfast of toast and a cup of coffee.

No matter what she is upto she will stop what she’s doing crawl over to me and stand up with a big smile staring at me plate. She looks so pleased when you offer her a piece of toast and takes it with one hand and stands there eating it looking at you eating the same as her. Is this the first time she is conciously feeling proud do be “grown up”?

Another thing she loves doing is holding a cup upto her face! lol

It’s so funny she only sees us holding a cup to our face not that we are actually drinking coffee when we do it. Jamie gave her a cup yesterday and left her alone but watched from a far and Reagan played for 5 minutes holding the cup up to her face talking into it!

If you offer her coffee from your cup she doesn’t like the taste and backwashes it ruining your brew but give her an empty cup and she’s happy lol

So we have stopped the morning bottle and her breakfast now is toast followed by her Weetabix and banana cover in cows milk leaving just the night time bottle as her only bottle at 10 months old.

“No-one knows I’m here I ca do anything I want….

O oh! Bubbled errr found em Dad!

Two years ago today Jamie became my wife and made me the happiest man in the world! 


Everyday since then I have become a little bit happier.


I love being married to Jamie because its so easy, we are such a good match and a fantastic team.


LOVE YOU to bits dude!


Here’s to us and loads more anniversaries!

The first 4 minutes are probably more Grandma’s treat than an oscar winning film but if you can make it through those 4 minutes, you might want to turn your speaker right up to 10 for the last 10 second and see if you can make out what Reagan is trying to say!

Gets ‘ome tonight…from the pub…needing to…shall we say “piss like a stores horse”

I crept in and locked the door behind me and sorted me self before creeping upstairs, to find Jamie awake?

Anyway, after sitting on the bed next to her and chatting for what seemed like ages I remembered I needed to go to the toilet. It was at this point I thought I had reached senility and age had finally caught up with me and overtaken me…I stood in front of the bog and me feet were wet and I couldn’t remember having a piss yet? Looking down I realized I hadn’t got him out yet, OH NO were my pants wet? Please don’t let me pants be wet! Having a tentative feel around confirmed I hadn’t pissed me self so what the hell was going?

Anyway I won’t go into detail about what happened next but once he was safely put away again I needed to find where this water had come from, and even drunk it didn’t take long. The radiator was leaking from the valve and needed to be sorted or we would be in deep shhh… water by the morning!

With Reagan asleep opening the loft hatch hatch right outside her door was going to be tricky but necessary as me adjustable and monkey wrench were up there. It was noisy and Reagan did wake but I managed to get it shut again and once it was quiet she was asleep pretty quickly.

Tightening a compression joint is a simple task sober but drunk so much can go wrong the worst was I over tighten and it bursts completely non of this happened though I gave a slight twist and dried the pipe off and for the next five minutes wiped it with a dry finger and it stayed dry job done.

Not what I expected to be doing upon my return home but look on the bright side at least I’m not incontinent and for a split second there I wasn’t sure lol now the only problem I have is I can’t remember where I put me spanner and wrench…..

This morning began with tears…OF ABSOLUTE JOY Jamie spotted the post lady carrying a large envelope covered in stamps and recorded delivery stickers which she last saw 18 days ago as she sent it of to Liverpool’s immigration office with her application to stay in this country, she now calls her home, forever!

“Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god”

“Dunner panic dude its back quick you got it!”

As she opened it tentatively and reached for her passport I could see she was nervous but with a tinge of excitement!

A huge beaming smile and huge shriek told me we were going to be a family legally forever at that moment, and then the tears flowed as she stared at the ILR Visa stuck to page 11 of her passport…!

A family hug and more tears she then left for an appointment saying over and over “What a day, What a day!”

IT WAS NEVER IN DOUBT IN MY EYES NEVER! WE DID EVERYTHING RIGHT AND BY THE BOOK PAID THE MONEY EVERYTHING!  Its just, until you get it in your hand it isn’t 100% certain but you hear so many stories of people doing everything wrong and still being allowed to stay I knew we wouldn’t have any problems.

WELL DONE DUDE!
Reagan and me are dead proud of you!
“…he puts his watch there because he doesn’t want you to break it,
and if you do they’ll blame me, and they’ll send me to a cats home.
I’m not looking this can only end in tears!”