Well I’m still alive, just. Baby Evelyn Rose is thriving, but keeping mother Rachel up at night. I usually get woken up at about 3 to sit with her for an hour or two to allow Rach who has been breat feeding for 4 hours on and off some kip. Good job babies love sci-fi (it was Firefly last night).

Despite the tiredness and the realisation life is not exactly our own at the moment, serveral posistive things have happened recently.

All the Newport clan have been to visit and think see is very pretty, as does it seems does the rest of the world. Uncle George was first to come up a week gone last Friday to wet the babies head with me. We had a mini pub crawl round my neck off the woods and it was a nice break for me. Mum was next mid week and Dad came up this weekend just gone.

We’ve been out of the house using the ‘assault vechicle’ (which is my current nickname for the mechanco set that is the baby pram/car seat) first for a gentle walk down Tandle Hill Road and yesterday for a quick trip to the local gardening centre (which ER slept all the way through).

Since ER and Rach have sleeps through the day (although we hope at some point ER will settle down during the night) as well as the house chores I’ve got a fair bit of RPG writing done for my projects. I’m also reading the complete Conan Chronicles by Robert E Howard for the first time. So I haven’t ceased to exist as a person 😉

This week we plan to get the house even more sorted, which hopefully will see the ‘office’ finally clear of all the other bits that have been dumped there over the last 6 months.