Exactly one month ago as I type these words, I was in the second stage of labour (that’s the pushing bit, where you get the baby out). By the time I finish this paragraph, it will be exactly on...
The amount of laundry currently being done in this house has to be seen to be believed. Things hang from every surface, drying as fast as they can in a house chilled by the chilliest winds of the chi...
It has been almost three weeks since I posted. Please forgive my unintentional hiatus, I have been a bit preoccupied. Also, I have been learning to type one handed. This has been going well. I have a...
After a long time of testing the baby in closed laboratory conditions in an undisclosed location (or “a uterus”)(or rather “my uterus”), it suddenly came to light that the bab...
I am sitting waiting for my baby to decide he is ready to emerge, singing a little waiting song. It is mainly a very patient little song, but with an occasional few bars of “OH COME ON, LA LA L...
My mother brought down some very old schoolbooks containing - well, mainly me trying to write the letter ‘J’ the right way around, but ALSO - some stories and pictures and other early exa...
Doozer was due yesterday. He didn’t come. This is FINE, obviously. I’m not grumpy. Or tired. Or impatient. Or so bored of hoisting myself off the sofa and up the stairs to the bathroom th...
12 things I want to do in ‘12 1) Have a baby. This one’s a bit inevitable, I think. I’m two days off my due date. 2) Write more I always want to write more. I mean, I do little else...
In the last few weeks of 2011, I made a thing, for Doozer’s room. I wasn’t sture what it was going to be when I started, I just started doing small squares of tiny cross stitch, like this...
I managed one camping trip in 2011. It was a week or so after I discovered I was pregnant. We were in California. I’d (blimey, how much have I detailed of this already? I can’t remember. ...
I’m going to drop the pregnadvency stuff after this, for several reasons, the main being a) it’s now after Crimble and I had no time pre-crimble to do 24 of them, which would have been a ...
HAPPY CHRISTMAS. That is all. Doozer has still not arrived (I probably would have mentioned that first, to be honest, before the Christmas thing, sorry Jesus) but appears to have *maybe* (I’m n...
Known Knowns - It is December 21rd. - While I am freelance, and therefore have no ‘maternity leave’ as such, the people I’ve been working for exclusively for most of this year have ...
This is more of an actual asking for advice than anything else. I know, unusual. Usually I’m all: I don’t want your advice, I will do it MYSELF, thank you. I am stubborn and annoying like...
There was one day last week when I wanted nothing more than my duvet. My Beloved tried to get me out of bed every way he could think. Bribery, cajoling, promises of treats and fried breakfasts and th...
[I continue to be completely brilliant at deciding to do blog series of things while also having lots of work to do: in this case, the rush of work that will take me up to Christmas and then disappea...
In fact, just a story that I found in an old schoolbook that My Little Mother brought to our family pre-Christmas weekend last week. It has nothing at all to do with being pregnant, I just wanted to ...
(I am writing down all the things about pregnancy I wish to remember while I remember to do so. And because they might prove useful, or interesting someday. Or at least funny. Any one of those three ...
My Advent Calendar of posts about pregnancy is a few days behind. I am catching up. One of the things that no one mentions much about pregnancy before you happen to tumble under its wheels is the gas...
(Note, just because I said I was planning on writing something every day in December, it did not, of course, mean that I was going to be near a computer every day in December. On the contrary, I spen...
I want to try and write one thing a day this month, almost entirely about pregnancy, so I don’t forget it all before the next part (the baby part) so don’t be surprised if all the windows...
Yes, it’s another pregnancy post. I promise I’ll think of something else to write about at some point, there’s just not much else on my brain this week. The weirdest thing about thi...
I am home. After seven weeks away (was it seven? Eight? Whatever, it was long) I am home. Some things of note: I think my sofa has got considerably deeper while I have been away I can think of no oth...
I have been watching a lot of television in Vancouver. Not because that’s the most fun thing to do in Vancouver: it isn’t, by a very long way. Vancouver is lovely, and filled with cultura...
Before I became pregnant, I heard people talking about mysterious things like “trimesters”, and measuring time in weeks and days more accurately than I ever managed to arrange my life int...
I was watching some local Canadian channel one evening last week, during one of the short sleepy evenings after the long typy days in the office. Inbetween adverts for canadian cheese (Slogan = ̶...
I have now been in Canada three weeks. More than, in fact. And am here for about the same again. And yet, I have managed to write very little (shame on me). Mainly because I have been working very ha...
I have been exploring Vancouver since I arrived, two weeks ago. Not during weekdays, so much, because I am mainly sitting in an office during daylight hours, writing ridiculously fun things and calli...
And I feel comfortable informing of you of that, because I am in Vancouver, watching it rain. It has been raining for most of the day. It likes to rain in Vancouver. Occasionally, it will stop rainin...
It has been a very, very dramatic week. On Sunday, I thought I had gas. Wait! Hold on! That is not the dramatic bit! It is way more dramatic than that. Actually, not that much more dramatic. But a go...
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