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    “You're my favourite daddy!”
    by Iona

    Goodbye Gertie

    (doesn’t everyone name their cars!?)

    So today after 3 years and 57470 miles Gertie Golf goes back so:

    57470 miles / 32mpg (avg) = 1796 gallons of go juice
    1796 gallons = 8165 litres
    8195 x 115p litre (expensive fuel, rather than the norm) = 9424.25 UKP

    of which 6126 UKP went straight to the government in fuel tax

    Nice.

    Or how [...]

    What a stupid idea

    So months ago, I was easily convinced that having another baby, a sibling for Iona would be a good idea, why wouldn’t it, the second child is cheaper, you have the experience to handle it all, and it stops the first born becoming such a monster, a spoilt brat (hopefully)

    So here we are sitting on [...]

    Meeting Baby

    So here we are almost at the 12 week scan point, Iona still doesn’t want a baby brother or sister, or a dog for that matter, but would like a “meow meow cat”…. Thursday morning we head off to High Wycombe to meet our baby for the first time with the 12 week scan. [...]

    Three kits can’t be wrong.

    So after a shaky start yesterday with an all to early wake up alarm from Iona (0650 – not impressed) we managed to eek out getting out of bed until around 0830 ish, with much bouncing and impatience to get on with the day from Iona and zero enthusiasm to move from Octavia or I…. [...]

    Do you want a baby brother or sister Iona?

    No she doesn’t she told me today as we were swimming, going to be in for a shock then (all things being equal)

    Went to the doctors today with Octavia and Iona as she told her GP the good news, and it was really nice as the Doctor seemed genuinely pleased and gave very good advice…

    Avoid [...]