your presidential candidates as you have never read them before

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A letter a librarian wrote to a library user who complained about a book featuring gay marriage:
Uncle Bobby's Wedding

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I have the luxury of a sleeping toddler and a content baby being held by DH, so I will use the opportunity to note down some observations on DD's recent language development.

But before I start, hugs to miriammoules, she needs them.

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Comment and I'll do my best to ( Read more... )

... not the comic strip (well, the comic strip, too) but the real kind.

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First of all, apologies to those who wanted an email and didn't get it - there were problems both with my email list and with MS Outlook. I've now switched to Thunderbird and will resend those announcements some time in the next few days ( Read more... )

So, Thursday is D-day, second on the list of sections that day. cynthia_black, will you do the posting honours again? Same password as last time ... I can text you a reminder.

If any of you would like to receive the birth round robin email, please comment here - all comments are screened. Probably not much more detail than on here, though :)

So, last night, I was talking to our DD (2.5) about her baby brother's birth. I explained that I would be very sore after the birth, because the doctors were going to cut my belly open right there (I showed her my old section scar) and lift baby out ( Read more... )

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Our son will be born on March 20 at the Big Local Teaching Hospital. That is, provided that Big Local Teaching Hospital doesn't shut its doors to any but the most urgent cases, as it has done frequently during the past couple of months. And provided that they can fit me in on the day, seeing that I'm second on the list of planned sections. Despite ( Read more... )