Today started much better than yesterday.  Yesterday with both myself and Helen rather upset with Harry still not being settled and causing us much worry and lack of sleep we decided to take action!  A friend down the road had recommended a Graco Baby Swing that she had for her little boy and praised it no end.  So off I went in search.

First point of call was of course the Internet.  Toys R Us was the first stop and yes they sold the Lovin MyBear version which was the one we wanted.  It is a rather large contraption that swings at several different speeds, plays music, nature sounds, and even mothers heartbeat as well as having its own mobile of toys.  Unfortunately it doesn’t feed or change the baby, but you can’t have everything!

So off to Toys R Us in Preston.  Once I arrived it took me some time to wade through a number of the different toys in the store until I found the very items that I wanted.  Problem.  “I am sorry sir but we have none of these left in stock, although the line is still active so they should be in soon” said the lovely Beth (store assistant).  No good I thought, we need this sorting today, so Beth rang around and found one in the Bolton store.  Great I thought, near the Reebok easy to get too and reserved it.

On closer investigation of the location of the store it was clear that it was nowhere near the Reebok and therefore I would have to venture further afield to the south of Bolton.  On the M61 I got and off I went.  The journey was fine until I left the M61 at junction 3.  There was a diversion going onto the A666 into Bolton, the very road I wanted.

Half an hour later I rejoined the A666 and finally spotted the store on my left.  As I walked into the store, there was Donna and Julie the very assistants that I spoke to on the phone.  I quickly located the item, and even remembered to buy batteries otherwise it would have been a wasted journey.

Then it was time to set off after a quick stop at Burger King (sorry I know not a good thing but it was 1430 at this point and I had not eaten!).  The journey back was simply a nightmare.  I ended up going round the houses all over as I could not get back onto the M61 at junction 3.  So through Tyldsley, Leigh and finally onto the M6 at Haddock (Junction 24) and back home.

It was relatively easy to construct even with the crude diagrams that are supplied with the instructions.  It is very funny watching Harry in it, and on the whole he seems to like it.  Lets hope so and here’s hoping that he settles down soon.

Over the last few days Harry has had a nasty, but little cold.  Coughing and sneezing and keeping us all up through the night.  Its not his fault poor thing, but is is very sorry for himself at the moment.

However today he was much better as he managed to get some sleep during each feed.  He was long overdue sleep as from 0200 on Saturday morning to about 0400 on Monday morning he never really got any more than about 2 hours of quality sleep.  I think he was over tired and not feeling well.

Hope fully he is on the mend and will be back to his usual self again soon.  The photo was taken this morning in is only comfortable position really.  He does look ever so cute.

For a long while I have heard an awful lot about Twitter.  It has been all over the news and also I have heard peopel talking about it as well as seeing lots of “Follow me on Twitter” links on peoples websites.  Therefore I thought it high time that I worked out what it was, and perhaps started using it as maybe I was missing out on something really good.

So what is Twitter then?   Well essentially it is sort of a condensed version of Facebook I guess.  The idea being that you can share with friends and other on the Internet what you are doing at any given time, by twittering and answering the question ” What are you doing”.  You can also share photographs and links with other people and have many conversations with your contact, friends and followers on Twitter.

Having a iPod touch means that I can also Twitter on the move when connected to a WiFi hub.  I have already downloaded the free Twittering application for the iPhone to uyse when on the move.

So what is my overall verdict then?  Well I like it, however I can see it taking up rather a lot of time in order to update.  Also when you read back your Twitters, sometimes you just think why on earth am I telling the world this?  Look out for my Twittering on this site in the sidebar in the near future.

Some of you will know that I recently sold my Mac Mini in order to raise funds for a more modern MacBook computer.  Before doing this I used the Time Machine facility to make an entire copy of the files on my Mac so that I would have them for restoration when I get the new Mac.  But I have some questions which, after scouring the Internet I am yet to find the answers to.  Perhaps someone here can help?

The things is, is that although I want to restore my old files from the Mac Mini I don’t want to restore them all.  I mean lets face it our computers get riddled with all sorts of rubbish these days.  The more you do then the more they get cluttered and therefore I am a big fan of starting from fresh every now and then.  As far as I am aware when you switch on your new Mac it will give you the option of restoring a Mac from a Time Machine backup.  Well I sort of want to do that, but I want to simply look at the files that are backed up and then select which ones I wish to backup from.  Can this be done with Time Machine?

I suppose the other two questions that I also have are what is the easiest way of getting all of my photos from iPhoto onto my new Mac and the same with iTunes music?