New nephew, nuts and not happy kits

First off, number one nephew has arrived! And such a good looking boy he is too. Mum and baby are both doing well, and baby is feeding lots. And lots and lots and lots.

I spent a couple of days with the new parents in Wiltshire, helping the new grandparents to fuss over baby boy, and in the end, gave new grandparents a lift back home to East Kent.

Note little red lotus in the background, which made me very happy. Shame its driver wasn't nearly as cute.

The drive back home turned into a short-term stay in a lorry park on the M20/26 merge, but we passed the time talking to lorry drivers, chatting amongst ourselves and eating roasted peanuts. The peanuts being consumed in the hope that the subsequent dehydration would stave off the need to visit the little girl's crash barrier.

Kits were Not Happy upon my return as one of the two cat feeders I use for  short stays away failed. On the plus side, no dead gifts in the hallway for me to tread on, but on the downside, a hairball in the middle of the duvet, and something decomposing somewhere unreachable in the kitchen.

This dragon is not Toothless.

 I have spent the winter weekends thus far this year working on a cross-stitch, and this last weekend, I finished it. Is an awsome dragon, I think. And speaking of dragons, while in Wiltshire, we watched How to Train Your Dragon. It's kind of a kiddy cartoon, but the dragons are just the cutest ever, and its worth watching for them alone.

I watched the Dead Poet's Society last weekend, which I haven't seen in years. Actually couldn't remember why Robin Williams got the Oscar, as a couple of those boys were just brilliant.


Have discovered that my local Tesco and Sainsbury have both had growth spurts and are now super-mega-colossal-stores. Or something.

And did I mention how gorgeous new nephew is?