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Comment on Ilias’ Saga Draws To A Close by Nadine

Nadine — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:02:13 +0000

So glad they are home and things continue to go well. Thank god!

Comment on Temperature Normal by Nadine

Nadine — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:13:47 +0000

Thanks for the update. Glad to hear the little guy is better!! Keeping my fingers crossed for the procedure to go well and hoping all will check out fine.

Comment on Once You Get On, You Can’t Get Off by Dana

Dana — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:16:59 +0000

Oh god! Sarah wrote me, I can’t believe it. I told Sarah we had a similar situation with a slightly older Eli (3 months). She had cloudy urine & a fever. She was treated as an outpatient and we had to return to the hospital for a few days until a new test proved that it was not an infection after all. Wish I could be there to visit. sorry you (Ilias) have to go through this

Comment on Once You Get On, You Can’t Get Off by Nadine

Nadine — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:02:14 +0000

Oh my god!!! So sorry for baby Ilias and all of you!! So hope all will be back to normal really soon and you can put this ordeal behind you. I sure like to know how he got a UTI?

Comment on Road Test by ianmacd

ianmacd — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:20:31 +0000

Most seven seater cars have a third row that is only really suitable for children; for example, the Audi Q7. The seats in the third row of the Sharan, on the other hand, are suitable for adults.

All three seats in the second row and both in the third row are ISOFIX, too. Most cars of this description don't have ISOFIX in the third row.

It's little details like that, plus the ability to stow the seats in the second and third rows without sacrificing any space in the interior, that made us choose the Sharan.

Comment on Einde Kraamtijd by Helen Jones

Helen Jones — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:16:46 +0000

maar welke variant gebruiken jullie dan van Xavier?

Verder Linus klinkt voor mij als een latijnse variant van Linos (maar dat komt denk ik omdat ik beide heb bestudeerd en alles op ‘us’ al snel latijns voor mij over komt).

leuk om te weten dat er zoveel opties mogelijk zijn. inderdaad in het NL zou ksa-vier wel de manier van uitspreken zijn maar ik ken niemand (die nederlands is) en zo heet (en dus heb ik die vorm nooit gehoord).

Comment on Road Test by Helen Jones

Helen Jones — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:12:31 +0000

wow those booster seats sound very nifty, I would love to see how it works next time I will see you. I have never seen your car in real life (although I think I might have parked next to it hehe, was it the dark greyish coloured one?) I thought you had a blue one (when I saw the pics from when you got it).

We don’t have a big car (actually not a car at all hehe) but we are looking into options to buy one (in a few years). I don’t know how it will turn out and perhaps we need a small car to start with but I would love to have a bigger one as with two kids and loads of stuff to bring a small one is just really tight.

I saw a peuguot 5008 and I thought that one was so convenient having the option of 7 seats or at least 5 real seats (instead of the fake half seat in the middle). Is your car like this?

well I guess we will see what the future brings (and it won’t be a sharan hehe) but looking forward to seeing your car Too bad you had to get rid of the audi because I really liked that one! (I do understand why but it was a great car to look at).

Comment on Einde Kraamtijd by ianmacd

ianmacd — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:09:03 +0000

De derde naam spreken wij uit als LI-nus. In het Grieks zou het inderdaad LI-nos zijn. Wij geven echter de voorkeur aan de Scandinavische uitspraak.

Wat Xavier betreft, de door jou genoemde ex-EE-vi-er uitspraak is de Amerikaanse variant. De uitspraak van de 'x' als een eigen lettergreep vind ik persoonlijk lomp klinken.

De Engelse uitspraak is ZEE-vi-er, terwijl de Nederlandse za-VIER of ksa-VIER luidt.

Comment on Road Test by ianmacd

ianmacd — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:53:56 +0000

At the pull of a handle, the booster seat slides up and out of the main seat cushion, forming a perch on top of it and including a footrest for the child. The mechanism is quite ingenious and we can demonstrate it the next time you're here.

Although the booster seat offers no side protection for the child, it comes with a headrest replacement that goes around the child's head and shoulders, protecting them in the event of a sidewards impact.

Having at least one child in such a booster seat does offer some practical advantages, however. If one has ISOFIX car seats on both the left and right side of the middle row, neither seat can be folded down to allow a passenger entry to the third row. Using a booster seat on one side, however, means that one has only to press the booster seat back into the main cushion to be able to fold that seat down.

It also means that either an adult or a child can routinely use that seat, whereas an ISOFIX seat has to be removed and stored to allow an adult to travel.

When we put together the order for this car, we also took the option of extra side air-bags in the back of the car. These would hopefully compensate for the lack of any side support from the booster seat in the event of a crash.

The Sharan can also park itself. It has proximity sensors to detect when it is close to other objects, so it can actually manoeuvre itself into a parking spot. We haven't actually used the feature yet, but it supposedly works. The driver uses the accelerator and brake, but the car steers itself into the parking space.

The car itself isn't as wide as you'd think, anyway; and it's less long than our Audi A6 Avant was.

Comment on Pain by ianmacd

ianmacd — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:02:10 +0000

They will read it. That's a given.

Hopefully, they'll appreciate my old-fashioned, mother-in-law style humour.