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Happy New Year all!
We celebrated the new year mainly by going to bed at about 9.30 and then sleeping through the night. I was woken by fireworks at midnight, but ignored them comprehensively!
On the first though, we had joyous celebration, as I met my nephew for the first time. My brother and his wonderful wife had been in Lesotho to meet and adopt their gorgeous son. They managed to join him in time for his first birthday on Dec 1st, and we managed to join them for a few hours on their Heathrow layover on their return to Canada. Miles is adorable, and I don't think I've seen my brother this happy and relaxed for many years.
The shock of being the parents of a one-year old instantly has been overall a positive experience for them. We were all very gleeful in the strange transitory world of an airport hotel, but we did bring a delicious lunch and champagne, which made it a better stopover than their previous one!
Our drive from Heathrow to Harrogate was long but probably the best day of the year to do it... Poor Gwen managed pretty well, despite boredom.
The week between Christmas and babymeeting was mainly made up of drinking champagne, playing with Duplo and wheeling Gwen around on her new trike, I may also have eaten some cake and had some champagne. It was lovely. Knitting was also quite important. I have discovered an email group which seems to be the epitome of geek knitting. The designer is inspired by all sorts of pleasingly geeky books, so there are loads of shawls named after Discworld characters, or after other fantasy and SF characters and worlds. It's like my happy place, which Mup describes as being populated with fanfic, porn and knitting... I'm not sure he's entirely correct, but those three things are probably components. He's left out the geekery, and the biscuits!
Right, onwards, and I will try and post more and chat more, honest.
We celebrated the new year mainly by going to bed at about 9.30 and then sleeping through the night. I was woken by fireworks at midnight, but ignored them comprehensively!
On the first though, we had joyous celebration, as I met my nephew for the first time. My brother and his wonderful wife had been in Lesotho to meet and adopt their gorgeous son. They managed to join him in time for his first birthday on Dec 1st, and we managed to join them for a few hours on their Heathrow layover on their return to Canada. Miles is adorable, and I don't think I've seen my brother this happy and relaxed for many years.
The shock of being the parents of a one-year old instantly has been overall a positive experience for them. We were all very gleeful in the strange transitory world of an airport hotel, but we did bring a delicious lunch and champagne, which made it a better stopover than their previous one!
Our drive from Heathrow to Harrogate was long but probably the best day of the year to do it... Poor Gwen managed pretty well, despite boredom.
The week between Christmas and babymeeting was mainly made up of drinking champagne, playing with Duplo and wheeling Gwen around on her new trike, I may also have eaten some cake and had some champagne. It was lovely. Knitting was also quite important. I have discovered an email group which seems to be the epitome of geek knitting. The designer is inspired by all sorts of pleasingly geeky books, so there are loads of shawls named after Discworld characters, or after other fantasy and SF characters and worlds. It's like my happy place, which Mup describes as being populated with fanfic, porn and knitting... I'm not sure he's entirely correct, but those three things are probably components. He's left out the geekery, and the biscuits!
Right, onwards, and I will try and post more and chat more, honest.