In summary: Lots of nieces! …well two nieces plus a niece adjacent person and Fo, and Ava-Jane, so lots of women… and me! Oh poor me… it was great! And then we had the Delahhooke-Sullivans, old-tim…

And so it must come to pass that I need to write a blog post basically to moan about the fatuous antics of Nigel Farage and dress it up as celebration of my dear daughter turning 17 years old. And …

I am writing this at the beginning of my week with Ava-Jane… I exaggerate; it’s more like three days. Fo and Otto are off on a road trip to Abergavenny where he’ll be taking his fourth driving test…

So, yes, great, we are home. But, as the rather long-winded title to this blog suggests, we have got a whole load more kit back home with us. And it’s all very noisy. We had already got the suction…

Fo and I have long had a theory that one night in hospital is OK, two is bearable but by the third night, you start getting a bit delirious. It’s akin to a very long long-haul flight. It’s the same…

It’s December, traditionally a month of traditions: Saint Nicholas in some countries, Advent Calendars, copious food and drink, carols, Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year’s Eve. A special tradition of…

So, yes, we have had another diagnosis for Ava-Jane. This time it’s coeliacs disease, or celiacs disease, for my more US inflected readers. Apparently it is quite common in people with Down&#…

Before I start, let me address the featured image that I think will be on this blog post. There used to be an option to set featured image and I was going to use the image above – a pic I took of Y…

This is what I said to AJ just now as I have her a pre-bed cuddle. Now, this is of course not quite right – there are plenty of good and true people in this world but I had had a particularly packe…

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