When I see you every day I say "Mm-mm"

[venta]

It may surprise you (or, at least, any of you who have met me) to hear that I spent last week looking after a baby. Yes, a real one

Comments

[sammason]

This was fun to read. I like babies too, but soon get bored and as you say, it's great to hand them back.

[lnr]

Aww, lovely post :)

[pseudomonas]

Hurrah for practical uses of ballads!

[pseudomonas]

(also your link to the Morley Main appears to go to consumer electronics on Amazon)

[venta]

Weird, I wonder how that happened. Fixed now, thank you!

[lathany]

Sounds like it was a big win! Pity about the teething.

It also turns out I'm not that good at getting food into slightly unhappy, teething infants.

Yeah, me too.

[bateleur]

Yeah, me too.

The trick is: there is no trick.

I warned Ginny that if she didn't go to sleep I was going to break out the mining disaster ballads.

That's a fine plan! Beebs don't care what you're singing about, they just like the sound. And one day in twenty years she'll hear the same ballad and wonder why on earth she finds it so soothing!

[venta]

And aren't they heavy! Ginny is (I'm told) rather under-sized for her age, but the trouble is that she's not an entry-level baby. I haven't had the 12 month weight-lifting course that her parents have had!