Bound feet and high heels (by sarah)

Today I went to a museum and read about the old Chinese custom of binding womens feet, the foot was curved in so that the weight ended up being taken on the heel and big tow when the woman walked or scuttled - now it occured to me that this must have been similar to high heels in wweight distrabution. Mainly this was done to the feet for fashion and cos it was seen as highly erotic - same as high heels - I wonder why? Why is something that is detramental to movement so erotic and sort after? Saying that what has happened to the world whilst I've been bizzy creating and looking after Jean? Everyone is so dressed up! And what is it with the hideous pointy toed shoes - witchy toes - lalalala - witchy toes tralalalala. And if they arent wearing that then they all look like they are from the 50's, 60's or 80's or that they are a cross between minni mouse and supermans girly (I cant spell her name ok).

Ok so now I have slated of a huge chunck of the population should I start on the wellies? Hmmm...

I'm not saying these cloths are bad (appart from pointy toed shoes especially if they have kitten heels) but why so dressed up all the time? Where are all the students in just jeans and T-shirts? They seemed to be absent 😕 Gosh things have really changed and I was only out of it for 2 yrs!

Bobble Goes Backwards! (by sarah)

Yesturday we took Jean to a friends house - which happened to have lovely polished wooden floors and lots of rugs. Jean was placed on the floor to crawl as she had become too wriggly. She was fine on the rugs but went slippy slidding on the floor, this was so funny to watch, she started to sort of crawl on the spot, then slump - her hands getting traction her knees not! Then to all our delight she worked out that she could go backwards to where she wanted by sort of pushing with her hands and 'swimming' with her legs - it really looked like she was doing some sort of froggy swim! 🙂

I think her geologic tendencies are currently winning as she used this new mobility method to get to the mineral collections - certain geologists will be pleased to hear that so far her favourite has been a large siderite nodule!

The Aftermath (by sarah)

I'm still tidying!!!!!

The party detritus still covers our house!

Thanks everyone who came, brought food, helped in many and varied ways and big thanks for those who have stayed to help me clear the devestation!

Jean is loving her presants - we are rationing them - so she is still excitedly opening them everyday 🙂

mew :( (by sarah)

Came down to reassemble/hoover the fireplace and lo! yet another kitten egg has appeared during the night 🙁 - obviously they aren't as house trained as we thought :'(

Is that the Baby? (by sarah)

At dinner today I kept hearing a sound that could have been the baby whimpering (she was already tucked up in bed) or something like an owl hooting outside - after making Als life a misery and a checkup on the baby it was discovered that the noise was infact the sound air makes going through Als nose when he breaths!

He says that when there is a sleeping baby you'd better be quiet around me - not becuase you'll wake the baby but becuase I will panic!

Feeling a tad silly now - I should have just checked on the baby monitor in hindsight - oh well.