I'm going to be a dad!

Time for the big public announcement... I'm going to be a dad! There
will be a little baby Waterman entering this world at the very end of
Jan / start of Feb.

FAQ and an ultrasound pic at: http://www.nilex.co.uk/baby/

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Nick Waterman. Senior Systems Administrator, Sony Interactive Services
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Nick Waterman wrote:
Congratulations. Got any names yet?

See ya,

Adam

Best wishes and congratulations... great news...

Daniel

Well, that's stuffed your skiing career for the immediate future.
Lovely. Could have done with a bit of an explanation though, like say, a
second picture with the outline drawn in, just to help those of us not used
to such things. It looked suspiciously like a picture of "hurricane george"
or something until I got my pet baby-expert to explain it to me.
(sigh)
If he's going to go to all the effort of doing you a FAQ, you could at least
read it.

Anyway - it's a bit soon for congratulations now I think. I'll congratulate
you in another 18.5 years, when you've finished the job.

mad, mad fools.....

Dominic

"It matters not whether you win or lose;
what matters is whether I win or lose." [Darrin Weinberg]

"Thomas, Dominic" wrote:
You can't FAQ a baby! It's morally wrong. I'll have no part in it.

It kills the conversation dead for starters.. :-)

See ya,

Adam

Congratulations, Nick and Estelle! *starts to knit furiously*
Please, NOT ANOTHER CHRIS!!! ;o)

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Asach Tu said:
You really think we'd be that cruel?!?

Check with Estelle - if it's a boy, the name is her fault :-)

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Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late evening.

Or an Adam, we've got enough of them. You could call him Ron, I
suppose; my family have been for god-only knows how many generations.

Ok, so names you REALLY shouldn't choose for the child are:-

Dominic
Chris
Adam
Nigel
Colin
Wendybel
Tiberius
Darkstar
Ripley
Opus
Ascot
Frodo
Satchel
Amiga

Ask us all after the birth, and we'll try and come up with some sensible
suggestions. (Well, maybe not.)

Dominic

"Trust me - I'm a scientist." [Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters]

hmmmmm, you could be right Ron.....

Congratulations Nick :-)!!!!!!

Adam (who spent last weekend in Manchester......)

I've been thinking about this naming your first born child game. Some more
to avoid:

Wesley
Adric (both for remarkably similar reasons)
Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Ori, Nori, Dori, Balin, Dwalin, Oin, Gloin, Fili and
Kili
Anakin (Though I bet some idiot has)
Vigor

I'll think of some more later .....

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more
Adolf springs to mind.


Andy

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[Snip]
Obviously....

How about a positive suggestion: Bob ? We've never had a real one .......

(Not that anyone refered to as Bob isn't real...)

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Philip Ayres said:
[snip]
I believe Wendy and Jim were planning on it, but might have been put off the
idea when episode 1 came out. They were also, I thought, planning on having
a y2k baby, but I suspect they're too late for that now.

Possible names...

If it's a girl, it's my choice, and I quite like the name "Catherine",
although there's one particularly famous Catherine who's been making a bit
of a fool of herself recently, so I might change my mind on that one.

If it's a boy, it's Estelle's choice. she used to like the name "Ryan" until
we moved next-door to a particularly noisy one, so she's not got any good
ideas at the moment either.

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Adam Hattrell said:
You haven't read the web page, have you? :-)

No, we don't have any names yet, but if it's a boy, Estelle will name him,
and if it's a girl, I will.

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Simple advice is the best advice.

Congratulations to you and estelle (i'm assuming it is estelle and estelle is
the correct spelling), well it has been a while?

All the best,
Andy.

P.S.
I'm reliably informed it is all worth it.
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Andrew Wright said:
In order... Thankyou, (yes and yes), and yes, nearly a decade (eek!)
Hope so. Ta!

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Cogratulation. I am sure you will learn a lot from a little baby Waterman,,,


Kozo


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Well, I suppose I'd better do the standard thing and offer my
congratulations, although I pity the poor little thing... :-)


Ron
=$-)
How very true...

Wow, congratulations. I imagine that's going to put a brake on the CD
buying...


Andy

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Nick is what you did in HMV public knowledge yet ?

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Say WHAT? Is this relevant to the CD buying, or the newly-announced baby? If
it's the latter, I'm sure we don't want to know!

If
No it's a CD buying thing.....


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<heaves a big sigh of relief>
Well, that's all right then. So, what happened? I'm intrigued now, or
wouldn't Nick want us to know?

It involves Nick, a large piles of CDs, a Chorlton and the Wheelies video.
(Chris - did you enjoy ?) And a Credit Card. CD buying was mentioned -
Andy ? - so I assume that he's confessed all to a few people. Mainly his
wife and the Bank manager I'd hope ;-)

BTW:

1) for those who were coveting my Dragon Megatron a few months back it's now
available on line in the UK.

2) The Entertainer now has stocks of rarer UK release E1 figures in - a
search on Star Wars should be illuminating.

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OK, I think I can fill in the blanks now. I hope he had fun with all those
CD's. And I'm surprised his credit card covered it all, if there were that
many of them.

Well that might be the case, but I was there at the time. That's how I knew.


Andy

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Philip Ayres said:
Ta!
Yes... and it might as well be public knowledge that Estelle took some of
them back later in the week and swapped them for ones a few quid cheaper
from MVC :-/

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