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- Was pintrest retconned into reality yesterday? Two days ago I'd never heard mention of it. 7 minutes ago
- … announce findings that they couldn't explain and then experiment like crazy to explain them. It's called "science". 27 minutes ago
- I don't see CERN finding the fault that caused the false faster-than-light result as a "failure", they did exactly what they said they'd do… 28 minutes ago
- My joke yesterday with a superfluous apostrophe in the "its" was retweeted by 70 people! Take that grammar nazis! 18 hours ago
- Thinking about it, I don't support the right for *anyone* to get married. For eg, the Chuckle Brothers would be wrong on all kinds of levels 18 hours ago
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Category Archives: Life
Getting Christmas
I thought maybe that Tom’s third festive season would be the one where he started “getting” Christmas, but the whole thing seemed to be passing him by. I suppose the whole world is still a bit too novel to him … Continue reading
Guilt trip
I upset myself earlier. We were home from hospital, Jane was resting and I was occupied with calming the new baby. Tom was passing me Lego, trying to get me to play with him. I looked into his face, calm … Continue reading
Thankful
Today our daughter was born. Healthy, beautiful, absolutely brimming with life. Her name is Emily. Six months ago we were told she was sharing the womb with a twin. This twin, tragically, didn’t have all the bits needed for life. … Continue reading
Friday is Baby Day
This hasn’t, I’ll freely admit, been a Fun Pregnancy. But after all the trials and tribulations, the days and days of scans, the months of worries and the horrible late night hours of Very Dark Thoughts, we finally have something … Continue reading
Speaking Up
Tom’s speech development has been slow, but recently things seem to be speeding up. Continue reading
Summer Blizzard
It’s snowing outside. It has been, on and off, for weeks now. A slowly wafting blizzard of fluff. Possibly due to the spring drought (the worst in this region for 100 years, I hear) the dandelions seem to be having … Continue reading
Tiny Dancer
Every week that passes gives the surviving twin a better chance, so much so that (fingers crossed, touch wood, etc.) we’re now on track for a relatively normal pregnancy. I don’t even really think of the baby as one of … Continue reading
Dear Twin
I know I shouldn’t think of you as a person. You never were. You were never going to be. Just an incomplete bunch of bits to make a human. No head, no heart, no chance of life. I really shouldn’t … Continue reading
Scans and plans
We made the trip over to Norwich today, to see yet another consultant and get another scan to see how things are going. We thought today would be a scan of the live baby’s heart, but it turned out to … Continue reading
