Anna Merriman

Unless I took some on my phone, here we have a shot from Dad’s camera, when he and Nick met us at the airport, after John very kindly drove us all the way down to Heathrow. Despite over eager rule enforcement from the coffeeshop staff re. exact seating positions allowed, it was great to see Dad and my ‘little’ brother one more time, and we are looking forward to hopefully seeing everyone again this Christmas.
So, here we have it, the last British picture (14th May) before we play catch up with all the Kazakh photos…

Chris Irina Nick Anna at Heathrow

Taken the evening before we left (13th May again), here we have John, Gwen, Mum and Anna enjoying a cuddle on the sofa.

Anna Looking At Gwen, Looking At John, And Mum

Mum Anna and Gwen

Irina has just seen the last two posts, and has commented once more that the photos are still old. True, however I do not want to skip out on most of the photos, and as I try to catch up, we WILL eventually soon get to the point where the day we take a new photo of Anna, it can be published, rather than just added to the backlog.
Now if only Anna could help me out by writing some of these posts herself. Touch typing would be a bonus obviously, but I don’t want to get my hopes up too early…

Anna Helping John Type

Ooops, forgot to mention this photo was also taken on the 13th May. For anyone who hasn’t been reading all the Anna Photo posts, I’m trying to include the date each photo was actually taken, rather than only have the date the post was published. Once we’re back to real time photo publishing, I may go and alter the post’s dates to reflect the photo date, as I want to integrate/import them to Anna’s site.

hmm, musn’t forget to start clearing the backlog of videos as well. Anyway, back on track, these photos are from the last time we were in John’s studio before we left for Astana. 13th May to be precise, so one day before we encountered the joys of BMI flights
The first photo is still my desktop wallpaper, and looks pretty good on the Sony TV when in use, and the second is used by my mother-in-law as her PC’s wallpaper

Irina, Anna and Chris All In (Almost) White

Anna In Her Favourite Position On Daddy’s Shoulder

Before I forget, John has started adding a few new posts to his Celt Photographic blog (click the monthly archives to skip to the posts), and also more new photos to the Celt Photographic gallery. Some images are NSFW if your boss doesn’t like nipples on monitors.

of British photos, before we move onto the catching up of non-Twitter photos taken here in Kazakhstan. If I don’t complete those tomorrow (possible as we are popping to the doctors), I’ll take my hard drive over to the in-laws this weekend and try to complete uploading and at least drafting the posts there.
This was taken on the 10th May, and looking back at how small Anna is, it seems impossible this was only 2 months ago!

Mum and Anna in the backyard (Clydach)

Chilling in the garden – http://twitpic.com/4ubh7

Getting ever close to our leaving date in the UK, this was taken on the 9th of May. Anna is sat in her favourite bouncy chair, wearing a lovely dress, wondering why everyone makes a big fuss when she has certain clothes on

Anna in a Pretty Dress

Anna getting ready for the day… Clothes-Check… Clean face-Check… Eat hands-Check http://twitpic.com/4ruqr

Anna weighed a few seconds ago at the Pontardawe Health Centre – 13lb 1oz & 5.925kg All seems fine, no problems to report.

http://twitpic.com/4lh9p

After leaving Dad’s in Evesham, we went on into Cheltenham, where Irina had managed to find a good deal on a room at the Queens hotel. Whether the room was not as plush as their standard rooms, or it was simply a case that the hype accorded to this hotel increases your expectations, we couldn’t be sure. Nothing wrong with the place per se, just not as ‘wow’ as we expected. We met up with Ira’s friends from when she worked at PKL and had a nice meal at Cafe Rouge. From there we went on to meet up with the other Irina and her boyfriend, as well as ChrisD, Steve and Emma, over in the beer gardens.

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These pictures were shot in Evesham, at Dad’s house, on the 2nd and 3rd of May. This was our last trip before heading back to Kazakhstan, though we did also spend some time in Cheltenham on the 3rd.

Quick Anna photo on sofa, watching the news. Backlog of her photos clearing soon. Cheltenham visit this w/end poss http://twitpic.com/4bpsw