Ohmy God!!! (by sarah)

Whilst breast feeding Jean often pullsher self off the nipple and looks starled/horrified - when she did theis today Al intergected a personalo commentry for her. Quote:

Oh my God!!! I've just realised I'm sucking another girls tit, I'm drinking another human beans bodily fluid - Oh my God!!! Mmm but it tastes nice though (as she plunges back in for more)

Future Foundry (by alaric)

My father Lionel and stepmother Lynn were here to stay for a day again, so while Lynn took Sarah shopping, Lionel sorted out the little garage I am planning to make into my metalwork shop.

He did such a great job:

...that there's more space than I had hoped for, so I will instead make it into my full metal workshop. I was planning on just doing the forging and casting in here, and shouldering the metal machining into my grandfather's old workshop - but that can now stay as a wood workshop.

I just need to wait for the rest of my tools and the foundry stuff to arrive - hopefully not before I finish my backlog of work, because it would be frustrating to have it all there waiting to be set up when I don't have the time...

Lionel also found time to enjoy feeding Jean:

Whereas I, in an honest effort to (in one stroke) keep her warm, absorb any more partially-digested milk that should come out, and keep her sitting upright (which she likes, and cmplains if laid down when she's feeling inquisitive), managed to make her look like a Boohbah:

Experiments in Parenting (by alaric)

We've been trying to implement a regime of cloth nappies, since they're a bit more comfortable (less tight elastic bits) and a lot cheaper than disposable nappies.

However, we have yet to find a way of tying them without making the poor girl look a bit silly:

Speaking of looking silly, why do babies look so odd when being winded?

Our Idyllic Life In The Countryside ™ (by alaric)

Today, we had lunch in the sun by the waterfall.

Home at last! (by alaric)

Well, we're now settling in for good in Gloucestershire.

Hooray!

Now we need to start organising all the people who are clamouring to come and meet Jean...