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Ilias Eoin Linus Xavier Macdonald
Our difficulties with choosing names for our children are well documented. If reading that gives you a sense of déjà vu, that’s hardly surprising, because they’re actually really well documented. This was almost the hardest decision we’ve ever had to … Continue reading
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Too Flogged To Blog
What I haven’t written here over the last couple of days speaks volumes; to me, anyway. We didn’t even manage to take any photos on Thursday or Friday, but are rectifying that today with a selection of shots of the … Continue reading
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And Then There Were Five
Sarah woke me at 05:30 this morning with labour pains. Successive contractions were just a couple of minutes apart, so I got straight on the phone to Laura, our midwife, and Jacky, our doula. This is the same birth team … Continue reading
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Broadening The Band
My domestic bandwidth has finally caught up with the halcyon days I experienced at Google in 2003 – 2004. It was somewhere around then that we, Googlers in the Mountain View office, were first able to access the Internet at … Continue reading
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The Hypothetical Eleventh Month Fuck-Stop
What a week. Take my advice: If you’ve got young children and you are planning to have more, stop fucking at the start of November and don’t reconvene until January. The timing of late July/early August for being heavily pregnant … Continue reading
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