Just found this blog again after five years … I’d forgotten all about it.

Fascinating to see that the last entry was about Thomas’s christening. Well as chance would have it, it’s William’s christening in 10 days time. Lots of family coming again, and the house is in a right state. Fun weekend ahead, I think!

Oh yes, and I did finish the Five Hundred Eyes website, eventually. Now off Geocities, as part of my personal site: http://www.david.gibbs.co.uk/500eyes.htm

Knew this would happen. An initial flurry of enthusiasm, then nothing for two months. Ah well, at least I’m a good judge of my own character.

Well, the Five Hundred Eyes website that I’ve been muttering about is at least in progress. Hasn’t got any content yet, because that’s still on my old Mac, but at least I’ve got round to setting up some webspace for it. There’s not much there, but it is a home for my photos of Thomas, and that’s a start.

It’s Thomas’s Christening on Sunday, and the family are coming. It’ll be the first time in 7 years we’ve got both sides of our respective families together, and that in itself’s quite exciting. But heaven knows how they’ll all fit into our little house! With luck Richard will get some digital pics up on his site next week.

I’m told that the whole point of a blog is to link to pages of interest, so can I refer you to Oliver Postgate’s recent reflections on the state of children’s television. Words of wisdom indeed … given the flood of rubbish that currently passes for kids’ tv, I fear Thomas will be living off videos (particularly of Postgate and Firmin’s stuff) for years to come. He’s already into Doctor Who, or at least the opening titles, which hold him captivated! A little Who fan in the making, poor sod …

Mark and Laura came round last week with their two little ones, and four-year-old Isabella was transfixed by my talking Dalek on the sideboard. I don’t think her mother was too impressed that she knows all the catchphrases. I’m sure that Thomas’s first word will be Exterminate …

Well, this is all a bit new. Don’t know why I’ve got a blog. Don’t know why anyone would want to read it. But here it is anyway.

Okay, okay, so stick all the personal details down at the bottom. That way anyone who cares can scroll or search, and the rest need never bother with them. So …

David Gibbs, aged, oh, 35 or so I would imagine. Married, to Fiona, with a son – Thomas, who was born in October 2002. There’s not much else to my life that really matters apart from those two. Pictures of Thomas on my brother’s website

I have a job, as a web editor, for ITDG, a development charity, and it’s pretty good. Being paid to play with websites and save lives isn’t a bad way to spend your day … Fiona worked there too, until they made her redundant while on maternity leave. So much for the family business …

And a confession. I am a Doctor Who fan. Or at least, I was in an earlier life, and I never successfully shook it off. I once edited a fanzine called Five Hundred Eyes, and one day I will transfer it on to the web. If that day ever comes, you’ll read about it here …

And finally, I’m not up on the protocols of blogging, so forgive me – is it the done thing to put an e-mail link in? Well if so, you can e-mail me here, although I don’t guarantee how often I check it!