Tai Tam Tales of the Unexpected
Having taken all of 3 minutes to create my own place in the world wide web, it has taken at least twice that time to think of a title for the first post (and the same length of time again to type the first sentence).
Hopefully things will speed up otherwise this will be a very short (and infrequently updated) weblog.
The genesis of this weblog is the recent arrival of the latest addition of the family although I had been toying with the idea of creating an on-line journal to allow our family to keep up to speed on what we have been up to. Unfortunately not a great deal has been happening, or at least nothing that would justify keeping a journal on the web. However, with the arrival of V I now have sufficient incentive (if not necessarily the time) to start typing.
V's arrival was a little unexpected, although perhaps not as unexpected as her older brother, A, whose precipitous arrival caught his Father (on holiday some 2,000 miles away) and Mother (also on holiday, and who had a very firm belief that she would be delivering a little girl) very much on the hop. Planning for V's arrival was therefore a little more advanced (her Mother had a least packed an overnight bag for the hospital). However, although we had narrowed the hospital for her delivery down to two potential venues, in the end we were forced to use the University hospital because they had the appropriate facilitites. However, this did not stop us from making the trip up the side of the Peak to one of our potential hospitals of choice through howling gales and pouring rain at the request of M's doctor when her waters broke at 3.30am on the Friday morning - not a pleasant experience although it did offer an interesting contrast - all hushed corridors, oil paintings of benefactors and a "delivery spa" - with the University hospital which was very much more utilitarian.
Hopefully things will speed up otherwise this will be a very short (and infrequently updated) weblog.
The genesis of this weblog is the recent arrival of the latest addition of the family although I had been toying with the idea of creating an on-line journal to allow our family to keep up to speed on what we have been up to. Unfortunately not a great deal has been happening, or at least nothing that would justify keeping a journal on the web. However, with the arrival of V I now have sufficient incentive (if not necessarily the time) to start typing.
V's arrival was a little unexpected, although perhaps not as unexpected as her older brother, A, whose precipitous arrival caught his Father (on holiday some 2,000 miles away) and Mother (also on holiday, and who had a very firm belief that she would be delivering a little girl) very much on the hop. Planning for V's arrival was therefore a little more advanced (her Mother had a least packed an overnight bag for the hospital). However, although we had narrowed the hospital for her delivery down to two potential venues, in the end we were forced to use the University hospital because they had the appropriate facilitites. However, this did not stop us from making the trip up the side of the Peak to one of our potential hospitals of choice through howling gales and pouring rain at the request of M's doctor when her waters broke at 3.30am on the Friday morning - not a pleasant experience although it did offer an interesting contrast - all hushed corridors, oil paintings of benefactors and a "delivery spa" - with the University hospital which was very much more utilitarian.
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