Welcome to www.tonya.me.uk

This is my personal site and collective. I am now first & foremost a mum! I am or was a freelance IT Consultant & IT Trainer / Web Site Developer and in my spare time I am studying for a Marine Science Degree. Phew !! This Site is dedicated to me and Zachary. Its kind of a fun thing that started as work back in 2003, then took on a life of its own and evolved into a place to have fun & for my family & friends to keep in touch with me !

My wonderful smiley boy !! Posted on 18/08/2009 by Tonya

Zachary and I walked over to Victoria Park to meet up with Mum, Melody and Joshua. I took loads of photographs of the boys laughing and playing and got this lovely photograph of Zachary smiling at me. The new play equipment at the park is great fun and the shortcut to the park means we can be there in only 10 - 15 minutes. It is great to spend this time having fun and laughing together. I hope these photographs of those days and my notes help him remember what a lovely happy childhood he had and how much I adore being his mummy :)

[My blog is database driven with a MY SQL database and ASP. It was a simple test to add and retrieve data when I first started working with database driven websites. Click here to read Tonya's blog archive ]

Latest update <<New Gallery >> Posted by Tonya March 2007

I have spent ages looking for new gallery code to work on. I ended up writing my own asp code with an additional javascript add on which I loved to create a new gallery. It works best if you wait for all thumbnails to download before clicking. The gallery code was for a customer's site.

Tonya's Gallery Pages - My Mum's parents Mary & Albert Smith

I looked up Tonya in Wikipedia the worlds largest online encyclopedia (May 2007)

These were the two facts I found about Tonya:

Tonya is a town and a district of Trabzon Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. Check this out about Tonya (Τόνγια) or Byzantine Thoania (Θοανία).

Tonya Harding is an American figure skater.

I had no idea there was a place called Tonya! Note to contact Wikipedia and ask to be added? LOL

<Tonya & Zachary's New Blog / Journal for 2007 > Posted by Tonya Nov 2006

These days I only have time to keep Zachary's Blog updated so I have decided for 2007 to combine the two and start to work on a baby gallery. I need to practice my PHP & CSS Gallery coding anyway so this is the best place. Besides I have so many lovely photo's of Zachary to share. Here is his 2006 Blog and my Blog Archive.

Zachary's Blog << Baby Zachary born at 30 weeks - almost 10 weeks premature >> Posted by Tonya Feb 2006

Baby Zachary could not wait to join the world. Having a premature baby and sitting next to an incubator was not part of the plan and it was hard work but baby Zachary is none the worse for arriving 9 weeks premature. In fact now in 2006 he is growing into a lovely chubby baby. Read the story here

Pregnancy Diary & baby pages - Posted by Tonya July 2005

I thought it would be neat to add some baby pages recording my experiences as a new mum. I have started a pregnancy diary, 'Tonya's diary of a pregnant woman' and hope to continue with pics and diary of a newborn baby. Just so my friends and family can keep up with where I am at.

Tonya baby ultrasound

20 week ultrasound on baby page 7 Posted on 12/9/05 by Tonya

Had my 20 week ultrasound which went absolutely fine. Baby appears fine no obvious problems and they are aprox 75 % sure of picking up most obvious defects etc. Plus was able to confirm my own feeling that its a baby boy ! Cool huh!

Charity Event Pages Posted May 21st 2005 by Tonya

New section on Charity Events & Challenges that Tonya takes part in. Have had to cancel my entry to the BUPA Great North Run due to the baby. I did absail down South Stack Lighthouse with the Royal Marines 22nd May 2005 to raise money for Seafarers UK and Breast Cancer.

Why I am called Tonya.
The meaning of the name Tonya Posted June 05 by Tonya

Tonya is often referred to as a shortened version of Antonia. Antonia is the female version of Anthony. Anthony happens to be my Dad's name ! he he. In Slovakian Tonya means fairy. In latin Tonya means worthy of praise or priceless. I was named Tonya after one of the Characters from Doctor Zhivago. It was the only film playing at Bangor Cinema and Mum saw it lots of times. The two lead female roles are Lara and Tonya. Mum and Dad decided if I was born blonde I would be called Lara. I was born with dark hair so they called me Tonya. Tonya is the character played by Geraldine Chaplin. (Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin) and Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) in Doctor Zhivago )

Personal websites - 21st Century Diary by Tonya

I am intruiged by the idea of personal websites like mine here on tonya.me.uk. I am planning a feature over the summer on people and their personal websites. If you have a personal website, family site or simple blog site then let me know about it and I may feature it. [email Tonya at work@tonya.me.uk]

These are Tonya's top 3 websites of the week.

To check out my other website links go to FAV Links.

www.Tonya.me.uk - Disclaimer & Link to old Tonya site layout.

This is a link to old home page of www.tonya.me.uk & what it looked like (old site). Personal websites are like a form of 21st Century Diary/ Scrapbook. This is Tonya O'Donnell's! It is personal use. Really I dont expect anyone to read it or use it other than my family & me. If you do then thanks for visiting and add your name to my Guest map if you like. The content of Tonya.me.uk is purely for personal use and is the personal opinion of Tonya & written without prejudice. MY photos are mine though(those that I have taken & are of me & mine) & therefore are copyrighted to me - if you want to use them then simply email me & ask. Some of the info is gleaned from other sources - I have added some references on my admin page - apologies if I nicked pics or other stuff to use!