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Things Elsa can do : Drink from a cup

Well this may not sound like much of an acheivement but Elsa hsa started to drink out of a cup by herself. Proud dad smile on face as we speak...

GPRS price crash... well for me

My mobile operator Comviq have just announced that their GPRS service is going to cost 57% less. Thats 15kr/Mb down from 35kr/Mb. Admittedly I only use my mobile to read some news sites but they seem to have realised that if you want the average person to use a service you need to price it accordingly

OK, just set up web mail on my mobile, which was all done very easily using the Comviq site. Nice.

Flying from Scotland to Sweden

This used to be a real pain, as there were no airlines that flew direct from Scotland to Sweden. A stopover was always needed. I've flown all the way down to Paris before and then all the way back up, and that's no fun :-( And it takes so long with the waiting time in between flights too.
Then Ryanair started flying direct to Prestwickfrom Skavsta. Unfortunately both of these airports aren't very near where I live in either country, but at least now it's only one flight even if it takes about as long to travel.
But now I have just discovered that SAS have started flying from Arlanda (about 20 minutes from where I stay in Sweden) direct to Edinburgh. Not only will this cut down the travel time, a great thing when our daughter Elsa comes with us, but is also much cheaper (well not cheaper than Ryanair, but nicer).

Another cool thing about flying with SAS is that you can check in via the internet or using your mobile phone up to 22 hours before the flight leaves. They also have a self-check where you print out your own luggage labels and things, makes for shorter queues. I like it when technology is put to good use :-)

Thanks to dwlt and martin for for a good time at the Guildford Arms last night, mmmm IPA. And then on to some curry and very dubious Stella at Zest. Just because the tap says its Stella doesnt convince us...

Internet banking

My Swedish bank Foreningssparbanken has a really good internet banking setup and now they are advertising banking via mobile, which should also be really good. The problem is however that even though they tell you where to go to sign up for this when you go there theres no link to do it. How hard can it be to get this last bit right?

Pappaledigt

I've been doing this for 7 weeks now, and its really, really good. In Sweden when you have a baby the parents get about 360 days of maternity leave. They are then allowed to divide this between them as they want, which is why I'm off work fulltime now for 3 months and then only going to be working 50% from May to September :-)

It has shown me two things
1)How much work it really is to look after a baby, I'm knackered
2)How much fun it is to stay at home and look after Elsa

It may just be coincidence but a lot of dads will be using this at the same time as the European Championships and the Olympics I think.

Spring in Uppsala

Well at long last spring seems to have arrived in Uppsala. Up to last week we had about 10cms snow and ice everywhere but now it looks like this:

which is much nicer, especially when your "pappaledight" like i am. Still got some way to go though...

Update: serves me right for speaking too soon but itssnowing gain today

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My first post

Well it had to happen sometime, I've been thinking about it for a while and Dave finally pushed me in the right direction today. Cheers.

First bit of information is that Elsa (my 9 month) old daughter and me are going back to Scotland next week. We currently live in Sweden.
So if anyone wants to meet up next week (Dave) then get in touch...