Lazy blogger alert! Also, poll!

[bumpycat]

Too much to do! So here is a frantic, truncated post.

I have a two-week exercise (Grantham and Salisbury Plain) starting next weekend, and finishing on the 24th.

However, I also have to write my online Military Knowledge level 1 exam by the 23rd to be eligible for the Junior Officers' Tactical Awareness Course (JOTAC) in October. For which I have

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[xavierxalfonso]

Late to the party - that's what comes from logging in only every couple of weeks.

Anyhow, we managed well without a playpen and have so far not resorted to those cupboard locks. H. tried to get into cupboards and bookshelves and we established some she was allowed to get into and play with and others that were taboo. It has worked for the most part, though we have made sure that the nicest crockery isn't in easy reach. She also enjoys playing with the buttons on the stereo, though not with the volume control (she tried it a few times and got a huge shock at the sudden loud noise).

I also heard a lovely story - perhaps apocryphal - about a couple who got a playpen when their kid started being mobile and grabby, but who inverted the process. That is, they put all the valuable stuff into the playpen and let the kid roam around the rest of the room.
On a less lovely note, when I visited my aunt & uncle in the 1990s, they had a playpen in their lounge for their grandchild. But it was full to overflowing with toys, and the child never actually played in it.

Anyhow, good luck with the various challenges.

[bumpycat]

Maybe it's the chaos of moving, or maybe it's the chaos of me ...

We have too many slightly risky objects lying around to manage without the playpen. Things like exercise gear, computers (running) and computer parts, books (she dismantled and tried to eat one of her books we left in the playpen), power/network cables. We could probably babyproof the flat, but that would require leaving some doors closed permanently and leaving the lounge mostly empty.