lowest ebb

There has never before been a month, as far as I know, where I've got to the 13th without blogging. However, the sign that we'd truly reached the lowest ebb was on the 5th when due to sheer neglect of my responsibilities the http://babbage.tv domain registration expired, sunk like the Titanic, and took our site and our email service down with it. I mean come on, they could at least have sent me a reminder email, or two. Err... Well... Hmm.

We've a good excuse however, because the baby's arrived! (As you can see, full head of hair...) OK, to tell the truth, this is actually a rather more long-standing member of the family, but Duncan couldn't fit the snazzipants and we wanted to try them out on someone. :) A “dry run”, so to speak.

It's less than a week now to settlement on our new house, all going well with the Code of Compliance certificate. I am dreaming of the daily return commute dropping from 3.5 hours to just over 1... or at least I would be dreaming, if I could just get more sleep. This has to have been the greatest training for our new baby-related schedule though, and after a brief reprieve in the new house I expect I'll be getting up at a number starting with a five once again... Ah well.

Meanwhile we're gradually collecting the necessary other equipment, including the nappies featured above, some disposables for the first six weeks, a cot, and the other paraphenalia apparently required. I may have had a hunch it was a girl before, but seeing how much stuff the baby seems to require I'm now convinced it is a female! We are further motivated by the arrival of the baby of someone in our antenatal group, a month early. For us, that would only be a few weeks away. Time to get moving...