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Lets go back in time, to the late 80s. A small town in West Sussex. A Friday night. Late. Town Centre. It’s wet & dark: relatively quiet compared to town centres now. Town belonged to teenagers back then too, but in different ways to how it is today…but I digress…by a Church (now partly demolished [...]

Mr M is currently eggshelling a skirting board and so has asked me to “quickly bang out 500 words on the Danielson Famile” for him.
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It was late 2003 (possibly) and our relationship was in its early few weeks: Mr M & I engaged in the rituals of early courtship, revelling in each other company, sharing, [...]

365 Nights
We’re thinking about putting out a response book where we make a commitment that for 365 nights we will find a unique excuse every night for not having sex.
Although as it’s a response book, we should get cracking on it straight away but I’m tired after a day of minding the child and I’ve [...]

Mr M has become a slave to Pet Society on my behalf. It’s a stupid game on stupid Facebook where nothing much happens but you can buy stuff with money you’ve earnt/found/won.
With me so far?
And amongst the things you can buy are mystery boxes and for some reason I’ve become a tad fixated on buying [...]

All the way through my pregnancy, I had a strong and utter belief that when Lentil was born I would breastfeed him, and that with my usual enthusiasm for such things, that belief and vision encompassed breastfeeding him until he was 11. At least.
Bitty!
It never crossed my mind that things might not go my way. [...]

We’re not doing very well at this blogging thing at the moment, are we?
Eddie is back with us full-time now, has been for a week now. And it’s going really well, Eddie even gave Lentil a playbow earlier. Now to train the dog to tip us off when Lentil is beginning to stir in the [...]

22 days ago I gave birth to Lentil by emergency c-section after 11 hours of labour, which was nice. Amongst the millions of things that ran through our shattered tiny minds was that we mustn’t become bloggers-who-only-ever-talk-about-their-baby.
“I’ll look after the blog” declared SM, “you just heal and stuff”
And so for 22 days I’ve been busily [...]

We’re still in the hospital but after a protracted second stage involving every surgical tool available, baby finally made an appearance at 03:13 this morning, weighing in half an oz below 9 lbs.
He doesn’t have a name yet, but we’re now in a nice quiet room just off the ward, and both mother and baby [...]

This blog is coming live from the labour ward. Don’t worry, there is not much happening but we are here for more tests. The calm of the ward is punctuated every few minutes by the screams of a woman down the way. Either she’s in labour or she’s very unfortunate and is repeatedly stubbing her [...]

Yesterday I waddled off to see the Midwife. It was the first time I’d attended an appointment alone, having forgotten the tiny detail of when the actual appointment was, leading to Mr M taking the wrong day off. ‘I’ll be fine’ I laughed, making notes of questions Mr M had wanted to ask.
She dipped this [...]