And so, because I don’t want a bag with a cupcake on it, and I can’t bring myself to spend £185 on the one I really want, I continue to search for a changing bag.  There are flowery ones, and shiny ones, stripey ones and leather ones.  There are bags designed to scream “I HAVE [...]

The week before Christmas John and I met some friends in the pub for Wolf’s birthday drinks.  It was a lovely pub all dressed up for the festive season and I stopped crying just long enough to dress in something bright and cheerful, a dress that said “I AM ENJOYING THIS”, even if inside I [...]

John has started reading to the baby, a few pages of ‘The Old Man and the Sea‘ every night, and also he’s clamping a set of Bose headphones to my stomach and playing an hour of Soothing Classical Music every evening.  We’re hoping that this will get the baby used to the sound of John’s voice, [...]

John and I are having a row.  Don’t get your knickers in a twist, it’s not a real row, it’s merely a disagreement, a discussion, after which we have reached a stalemate. It started because I don’t like nappy bags.  I mean specifically nappy bags that are designed to look like nappy bags.  There is a [...]

We decided not to buy anything baby related until January, in order to a) take advantage of any January sales that might be on, and b) not freak out too soon that, oh my god, this is actual baby stuff for an actual baby. So, what with it being January, we started to tick things [...]