Conor's Bandon Blog

Running, Food and Local stuff from a blow-in

Orla has a baby

My younger sister Orla gave birth to her first child last Saturday around 7.30 am. Hannah Rose is a wee titch, weighing in at a little over 6 lbs. She is an absolute stunner and all are well and at home already. Nana Rose is allegedly chuffed that all her granddaughters have Rose as their middle name. Our boys are now totally confused with two cousin Hannah’s. This summer should be fun with all the girly cousins on holidays together.

Two Upcoming weddings

We’re thrilled to hear that both Ciarán O’Colmáin and Ethna Winter are getting married (Ciarán in February and Ethna in January) Not many left to go now from the UCD Eng class of ‘90……. Ethna is having her celebrations in Tattersalls near Fairyhouse which is about 2 miles from where I lived until I was 6 years old. Great place. Ethna’s other great news was the recent birth of her son Felix.

It's a baby alright

Had our scan today. Wee blobby is right on the predicted size for 9 weeks, 3 days. We expected Sibéal to be rivetted by the ultrasound but in fact she found the roller blind in the doctor’s office to be more interesting. All looks good. Not twins. Sigh of relief. Catherine has the finger rash so is pretty sure what it is going to be. Next scan probably in 8 weeks.

Blog Now available via RSS

You can now subscribe to the RSS feed for this blog. For the life of me I can’t think why but hey, it’s there if you’ve nothing better to read. Use: http://conoro.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Another sprog on the way

And the most important news of all - another wee blighter on the way! Not due until next July. Scan tomorrow. Anyone got an Espace they want to swap for a Zafira? Fingers crossed it isn’t twins!

Developers, Developers, Developers

Developers, Developers, Developers. Our company, Argolon Solutions, is looking for contract developers for medium term contracts (3-9 months) just outside of Cork city. Skills required include all/any of general SQL, Oracle DB development, SQL Server DB development, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, ETL tool development, Java/C++/VBA/Perl/.Net for DB development. Contact me ASAP via our web-site www.argolon.com attaching your CV if you feel you have a skills match.

Blogspot Move

So I finally moved over to Blogspot so that publishing of this is now trivial and doesn’t require an ftp server somewhere. Hopefully this means I’ll post news more often. Also looking at MSN Spaces but I’ll stick with this for the time being. Tons of bits and pieces which I haven’t reported on over the past few months; new niece Rachel, new house in Old Chapel, Argolon work expanding nicely, waistline not expanding but not shrinking, and no christmas shopping done yet.

Matthew Roberts

More top class baby news from the Roberts'. Matthew Roberts was born 5th March, weighing in at 6lb 6oz. After a rough few days, the wee blighter is thriving. Sleep deprivation, sore nipples and post-natal hair loss are the order of the day, but lucklily that’s just Frank, Helen is doing great.

Argolon Solutions Launch

I have formed a new enterprise, Argolon Solutions Ltd. , providing Software development and IT services to Irish business. I am already working with our first client and hope to build the client list as 2004 progresses.

Sibéal Mary Rose O'Neill

Only 6 weeks late with this posting, but we are overjoyed to announce the birth of Sibéal Mary Rose O’Neill in St. Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork on October 31st. A fab wee sister for the other two monsters. Apart from sleep deprivation, all are doing brilliantly.