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llywela1. My LJ account is now back to basics, and will be friends-locked at the end of September, so if anyone is still following that account for updates, please follow my Dreamwidth account instead. None of the pics I've posted recently seem to have disappeared, though, so goodness only knows what is going on with the LJ image hosting I should no longer have!
2. Had a lovely, active, exhausting week down in Pembrokeshire with my parents and niece last week - we returned just in time as pretty much the whole of Pembrokeshire was then closed on Sunday for the Iron Man tournament (congrats to all the insane people who took part in that).
3. I'm serious - just about every road we drove down last week had signs up warning that they would be closed on Sunday, so if we'd still been at the lodge over the weekend we'd have been trapped and unable to go anywhere all day! Way to shut down an entire county!
4. The couple who live in the flat directly above me have had a baby boy, so congratulations to them. It was really funny, because I never really see them, so the only warning I had were a couple of Boots Baby Club letters I'd seen in the communal hall, and then one night early in August I was just settling into bed when I noticed the faint grizzle of a newborn, just at the edge of hearing - they'd just brought him home that afternoon. It was a good couple of days before I was certain he was there and not just my imagination! But I've met him now; his name is Nicholas and he pretty much looks like a baby. So far, I am pleased to report that he makes very little noise - his mum and dad are louder, in fact, I hear them tramping around overhead far more than I hear Nicholas crying!
5. That said, I expect to start hearing him far more once those pesky teeth begin to make themselves known - probably around about Christmas...
6. Since I have Layla to sleep over fairly regularly these days, I have impressed upon her that there is a baby upstairs and she mustn't make too much noise, which is tough for her, because she doesn't have much in the way of volume control at her age. But she has so thoroughly absorbed the message that she now tells me to be quiet so as not to wake the baby, which is a bit rich coming from the two-year-old noise machine!
7. Layla turns three the day after tomorrow - where did the years go? We were all so hopeful when she was born, but then both of her parents imploded and neither one seems able to claw their way back to actual, functional parenthood.
8. But despite the uselessness of both of her parents, Layla is doing really well, my mum and dad are doing a lovely job - she is bright, energetic, articulate, and currently completely obsessed with dinosaurs. Which...I kind of knew that having to learn the names of obscure dinosaurs was a side effect of small children, but I didn't expect it quite this soon!
9. In other baby news, my good friend Noddy and his wife Glesni have just had their first child, a little boy named Jonathan. He is a SCREAMER. Good luck to them!
10. And finally - you know the trouble with beaches in Wales? They are so overcrowded...
2. Had a lovely, active, exhausting week down in Pembrokeshire with my parents and niece last week - we returned just in time as pretty much the whole of Pembrokeshire was then closed on Sunday for the Iron Man tournament (congrats to all the insane people who took part in that).
3. I'm serious - just about every road we drove down last week had signs up warning that they would be closed on Sunday, so if we'd still been at the lodge over the weekend we'd have been trapped and unable to go anywhere all day! Way to shut down an entire county!
4. The couple who live in the flat directly above me have had a baby boy, so congratulations to them. It was really funny, because I never really see them, so the only warning I had were a couple of Boots Baby Club letters I'd seen in the communal hall, and then one night early in August I was just settling into bed when I noticed the faint grizzle of a newborn, just at the edge of hearing - they'd just brought him home that afternoon. It was a good couple of days before I was certain he was there and not just my imagination! But I've met him now; his name is Nicholas and he pretty much looks like a baby. So far, I am pleased to report that he makes very little noise - his mum and dad are louder, in fact, I hear them tramping around overhead far more than I hear Nicholas crying!
5. That said, I expect to start hearing him far more once those pesky teeth begin to make themselves known - probably around about Christmas...
6. Since I have Layla to sleep over fairly regularly these days, I have impressed upon her that there is a baby upstairs and she mustn't make too much noise, which is tough for her, because she doesn't have much in the way of volume control at her age. But she has so thoroughly absorbed the message that she now tells me to be quiet so as not to wake the baby, which is a bit rich coming from the two-year-old noise machine!
7. Layla turns three the day after tomorrow - where did the years go? We were all so hopeful when she was born, but then both of her parents imploded and neither one seems able to claw their way back to actual, functional parenthood.
8. But despite the uselessness of both of her parents, Layla is doing really well, my mum and dad are doing a lovely job - she is bright, energetic, articulate, and currently completely obsessed with dinosaurs. Which...I kind of knew that having to learn the names of obscure dinosaurs was a side effect of small children, but I didn't expect it quite this soon!
9. In other baby news, my good friend Noddy and his wife Glesni have just had their first child, a little boy named Jonathan. He is a SCREAMER. Good luck to them!
10. And finally - you know the trouble with beaches in Wales? They are so overcrowded...
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Date: 2018-09-10 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-21 06:25 am (UTC)Nice a have a beach so beautiful and not have to share with a crowd.