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I was updating the site during the week to the latest version and I hit a problem and to cut a long story short, some posts were lost.  I managed to recover a few of them but the rest are gone forever.  Nevermind.

We were playing around with my mobile last week and I decided that it would be good to record Megan singing a few songs.  Do you think she has what it takes to be a future X-Factor/American Idol/Academy Fantasia winner? Click the small play button next to the links to play the file.

First up is the wonderful rendition of the

Next is a few of her favourite

It is funny how things go round in cycles.  4 years ago Nok was pregnant with Megan during which time we had to move house because I was starting a new job and also we bought a new car.

Over the past few weeks we have found out that again Nok is pregnant, we have decided to move house to another soi (street) in the same village where we currently stay and we have just paid the deposit for a new car which we will get in 2-3 weeks.

It looks like Nok it waiting until she gets pregnant before we need to move house, just so that she doesn’t need to help with all the heavy lifting, I think I will need to find a way to get out of the heavy lifting too as I nearly killed myself the last time.  The hose we are going to rent is the same style and size as what we are currently staying in but it has the benefit of being away from the road that runs along the back of the house that we are currently staying in so we should be far enough away that we won’t here the guys with their motorbikes with their noisy exhausts.  Nok has also been complaining that the neighbours dogs are crapping in their yard near the wall that separates our house from theirs and with the hot sun in the afternoons and the rain in the evenings it stinks the place out.

4 years ago we bought a Honda Jazz, which was new model in Thailand and it had only been on sale for a few months.  This time we are again buying a Honda Jazz and again it is a new model that has just gone on sale. 

I need to think back to what else happened 4 years ago to see what other delights await me over the new few months.

A couple of weeks ago I was going to bed on the Monday night about 1am and I had just gone through my usual routine of turning off all the lights, air conditioning, TV and UBC and went up to the bedroom.  Everything seemed normal and as I was getting undressed to go for a shower I heard something moving in the toilet.  I had a quick look at the bed and although it was dark in the room I could see Nok sleeping on the bed.  I thought maybe Megan had woke up and gone to the bathroom for a pee as maybe she was getting good at this "not peeing the bed" thing.  I thought that was unlikely though and started to realise that we had an intruder. 

Nok woke up and asked me what I was doing, I told her that I thought that someone was in the bathroom and she told me to go check.  I was still in my birthday suit and decided to go ahead and open the door.  The door was pushed back closed as soon as I tried to open it.  At this point I was sure that it was not Megan and I tried to open it again.  Again it was pushed back shut.  I needed to arm myself and had a quick look around the room, all I could find was Megan’s recorder and I thought that it was pretty much useless in this situation.  I was caught in two minds, I wanted to run downstairs and get a knife but didn’t want to leave Nok and Megan upstairs in case the guy came out of the toilet.  I decided that it was best to run downstairs anyway as hopefully the guy had taken the hint and climbed back out through the bathroom window.  Nok was calling the village security guards and I went back up to try the toilet door again but this time it was locked when the security guard appeared I took him upstairs to the bedroom and asked him to open the door, as it would be better for him to get the brunt of the intruder when the door was opened, if he was still there.  He was gone. 

The guard looked around the outside of the house while I checked and secured all of the inside of the house.  Nothing to be found anywhere so he had probably bolted as soon as he realised that I was not sleeping as he had thought we probably were. 

It took a few hours for me to settle back down and manage to get some sleep.  The next morning we found out that another house in the village that night got robbed and they had called the police, when the police heard that we also had an intruder they also came round to our place for a look.  They told Nok to go to the Police station to make a statement but that is the last I expect to here from the police on this.  No fingerprints were taken from the window where they came in.  I suspect that the person who did this was one of the labourers who stay at the house opposite our house, it is a house similar to ours and it has been getting renovated for a few months now.  Nok said that there has been quite a few houses in the village that have been robbed over the last couple of months so it would make sense that these guys are to blame.  The village have now kicked them out and told them that they are not allowed to stay overnight in the village so maybe things will get a bit safer in future. 

Nok is pregnant again.  I was in Taiwan this week and received a text message from her saying that she was 7 weeks pregnant. I was so surprised I was wondering if she was winding me up. 

She said that on Tuesday morning her mum said that she "looked" pregnant and should take a test.  One home tester and a trip to the doctors double confirmed that her mum was right.  How is she able to do this?

We went to Bumrungrad hospital today for a scan and to get a better estimate on when the baby will be due.  They said 29th Jan so I will mark it in my diary and see how accurate the doctors and ultrasound machine is.

Looks like the blog could be useful in keeping a diary on the pregnancy, that is what I wanted to do 4 years ago with Megan but never quite managed to get there.  Anyway, there will be loads of updates as we go along.