On Sunday we had the chatti for the baby previously known as Scrunchie-face Bharmal. She is now Amatullah Naimah (to rhyme with Saima). There have already been big arguments with my mum over the name. After the name was announced, my brother said they were planning on calling her Amatu. My mum says she refuses to shorten the name, insisting it be ( Read more... )

I had a hysteroscopy on Thursday last week, 21/7/17. They gave me gas and air, which I didn't really need, but gas and air is always fun. I love how everything sounds deeper pitched and the world is generally more dream like. They used local anesthetic on the entrance to the womb. I could see the screen that showed the camera output. There was a ( Read more... )

born at 12.28am today.

We went to Mischa's housewarming. It was nice - perfect mix of old and new people. I seemed to spend a lot of time chatting with Jude and Daft Paul - people who I often have a vague feeling that they normally consider me too immature to hold sensible conversation with - I guess that's a sign of maturity - me for being better at conversing and them ( Read more... )

Yesterday was our 15th anniversary. We had a pretty normal, laid back day. We celebrated by having lunch at KFC, just for nostalgia value. On Sunday we are going out with Elaine to celebrate her 40th birthday and our anniversary ( Read more... )

Just caught the news. I don't want to live in a country where the cities don't feel safe, where people are afraid to go outside their homes, to have experiences, to live fully ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a while. That's not so much because nothing's been happening. It's more just that I've not felt writing in a journal ( Read more... )

So I mentioned I had my 6 month review for my mental health skills course. That basically went: "How have you found it? Is it helping? Do you want to carry on?" with the obvious answers. But I think it's more of a milestone moment, and I want to do a better review that that ( Read more... )

I remember doing the UK Maths Challenge. It was simple and yet impossible. Despite being one of the best maths brains in our year (within the top 5 in a big secondary school) I invariably scored among the lowest at this test ( Read more... )

The ruby wedding went really well. The anniversary was on Easter Sunday. The week running up to it, the kids were on their holidays and on their way to Bristol they dropped me off in Cov, where I had a fantastic week socialising lots and helping Stuart and Leigha make wedding decorations. They look super awesome, and I really feel like I helped, ( Read more... )