This is adorable! I had forgotten that Ned was a twin. (I think you told me once that he was baptized immediately at birth. They must have worried he would not make it.)
I can just imagine him with a baby against his shoulder, and a competent hand under its bottom! And sensible kindly Archie.
I wonder how many acts of courage and kindness are hidden in those old logs?
I hope that IG and AG are resting at home, sleeping when they can. (Not so easy when there is an older but still small one in the house.)
Strangely enough I am writing about a baby too, on the Kyd Marlowe side of things. Maybe up tonight.
I can just imagine him with a baby against his shoulder, and a competent hand under its bottom
yes a fair few children,grand-, great grand- and god-children rode around on those shoulders over the years and all those long grown up mids were encouraged to bring their offspring to show I suspect.
and yes I guess that it is sleep when you can in the IG household just now - and with a older one raring to go as you say its quite a challenge. Still IG has a good friend who has extensive experience of going from one to three :)
between them they have hatched a third of the first ever Hollywood womens rugby fifteen of 2033 or thereabouts
and certainly the laconic logs hide all manner of acts of kindness and courage - masses of them.
Still IG has a good friend who has extensive experience of going from one to three :) Indeed he has! A good friend who just arrived back in LA last week. he's off gallivanting at Dallas Comic Con this weekend but I'm sure he'd be up for a spot of baby sitting when he get back :)
between them they have hatched a third of the first ever Hollywood womens rugby fifteen of 2033 or thereabouts ROFL!!!! How brilliant is that?! Well girls soccer is a big thing in the US, so why not rugby?!
nervous Horatio- well it was partly inspired by Ioan's admission of his 'terror' prior to the birth of their first little one -suspect like many second time around parents they are much more blase this time !
And the real Ned Pellew while implacable in the face of mutiny and decisive in action was truly soft as butter over children - and was later in life a very much loved grandfather and to a huge extended 'family ' besides - I didn't have to soften him up at all:)
Sorry about the sniffles - babies can do that too as well as fluff
but yes we invest so much in the new lives that come into our midst and have to hold at bay sometimes the thouhts about that future which they will see but not us
Yes, that's just how it is. We have lovely pictures of Peter with Cathy - first day he really looks just like Horatio here. By day three it's like he's been doing it all his life.
I love the sewing nightdresses bit. I can imagine Matthews and Styles vying to make them beautiful.
your question was a good one and made me realise that I had just noted Catherine did survive and i had vaguely remembered that she had married. Which led me to look =she certainly married - in fact a Finnish Count and they had a son but sadly she died aged 25 at sea off the Norwegian coast - I do not know in what circumstances as yet but shall now have to find out I think The reference to her in the fic is thus a misleading one since by the time of the incident it is based on Catherine was already dead - so Neds 'references to her would have been more poignant because his twin was no more. shows how things at the edges of ones research view just lurk and no not nencessarily penetrate the conciousness until something provokes it :)
How sad that the famous Pellew luck at sea didn't extend to Catherine. After what Ned and Israel survived, it's tragic that it was Catherine that died at sea, and at such a young age too. I wonder how she came by her Finnish count though? There's a story there to be sure!
Yes it is sad but I am grateful to esmerelda_t for causing me to look it up but sad - yes when her brothers survived storm, lee shores,Trafalgar, Algiers, India, and countless other things
well have to find out at some stage :)- about the FInnish count etc
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I can just imagine him with a baby against his shoulder, and a competent hand under its bottom! And sensible kindly Archie.
I wonder how many acts of courage and kindness are hidden in those old logs?
I hope that IG and AG are resting at home, sleeping when they can. (Not so easy when there is an older but still small one in the house.)
Strangely enough I am writing about a baby too, on the Kyd Marlowe side of things. Maybe up tonight.
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I can just imagine him with a baby against his shoulder, and a competent hand under its bottom
yes a fair few children,grand-, great grand- and god-children rode around on those shoulders over the years
and all those long grown up mids were encouraged to bring their offspring to show I suspect.
and yes I guess that it is sleep when you can in the IG household just now - and with a older one raring to go as you say its quite a challenge. Still IG has a good friend who has extensive experience of going from one to three :)
between them they have hatched a third of the first ever Hollywood womens rugby fifteen of 2033 or thereabouts
and certainly the laconic logs hide all manner of acts of kindness and courage - masses of them.
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Indeed he has! A good friend who just arrived back in LA last week. he's off gallivanting at Dallas Comic Con this weekend but I'm sure he'd be up for a spot of baby sitting when he get back :)
between them they have hatched a third of the first ever Hollywood womens rugby fifteen of 2033 or thereabouts
ROFL!!!! How brilliant is that?! Well girls soccer is a big thing in the US, so why not rugby?!
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but no doubt both dads will be celebrating and sharing some masculine solidarity in the face of their increasing state of outnumberedness ;)
yes it could start a fashion - Hollywood - Celts first XV - with a familar manager and trainer :)
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And the real Ned Pellew while implacable in the face of mutiny and decisive in action was truly soft as butter over children -
and was later in life a very much loved grandfather and to a huge extended 'family ' besides - I didn't have to soften him up at all:)
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but yes we invest so much in the new lives that come into our midst and have to hold at bay sometimes the thouhts about that future which they will see but not us
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I love the sewing nightdresses bit. I can imagine Matthews and Styles vying to make them beautiful.
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and by the time of Ros he was probably giving 'how to ' talks on the subject !
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I can't remember now, I know Pellew was a twin but did both children survive?
Congrats to the Gruffudd-Evans family on their new arrival!
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your question was a good one and made me realise that I had just noted Catherine did survive and i had vaguely remembered that she had married.
Which led me to look =she certainly married - in fact a Finnish Count and they had a son but sadly she died aged 25 at sea off the Norwegian coast - I do not know in what circumstances as yet but shall now have to find out I think
The reference to her in the fic is thus a misleading one since by the time of the incident it is based on Catherine was already dead - so Neds 'references to her would have been more poignant
because his twin was no more.
shows how things at the edges of ones research view just lurk and no not nencessarily penetrate the conciousness until something provokes it :)
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well have to find out at some stage :)- about the FInnish count etc
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