CARYS LOUISA MORGAN
I have a baby now, you think I have time to write things here?
Actually I do have time for things but have chosen not to write anything here for a while. I may well do again, but for the time being there’s photo’s to be taken.
BABY SOON
Well since those scans (still on the right there) a lot has happened. We’ve been getting equipped with a cot and a buggy/pram and lots of tiny little clothes which Kirsty insists on hanging up on the little hangers they came on. We now have a cupboard in the back bedroom that could knock you over at 100 paces with the sheer cuteness of it’s contents.
We’ve been to 2 parent classes together (Kirsty goes to extra separate women-only ones) and learned all about things which we’d already really read in books but somehow seemed more real when a person was saying them out loud. We also met a Mum and Dad with their 12 day old son who had been persuaded to come back in and tell us that "it’s OK, you will survive".
Water birth seems to be the order of the day, and I must admit the more I hear about it the more my preconceptions about new-age, crystals and joss-sticks type people are falling away. At the end of the day it’ll be whatever suits best at the time I guess, but for the time being that’s the plan.
So, we have a plan, we’ve packed some bags, parents and relatives know to expect a call (when we’re all done!) and there’s still over 3 weeks to go! I never thought I’d say this but I’m beginning to actually feel ready!
Bring it on!!!
4D SCAN
We’ve just got back from having a 4D scan of our baby at the Leeds Screening Centre. It’s like a normal scan only instead of just seeing a "slice" of the baby at a time, they create what looks like a 3D moving image of your baby in real-time.
I’ve stuck up some photos of the scan if you want to go and have a look, you can probably also see them on the right of the page there. She had her arm up next to her face for quite a while but with a bit of jiggling (well, actually quite a lot) she moved it enough for us to get a good look at her.
We’ve got a DVD of the whole scan thing and a CD full of images, so we’ve really very pleased.
ALBUMS
I was looking through Channel Four’s list of potential Best Albums Ever. They’ve got a list of 125 there to start you off choosing your favourite 5 from which they’ll generate the final 100 (I think you can point out omissions too if you want).
Anyway, point is, I was struck by how many recent albums were on the list and seeing as I was there I decided to rip off the list and re-order it by year in order to get a better idea of how (seemingly) biased they were being. The results of my efforts are here.
Seems like they’re not as biased as I thought. What I realised is that this list is vaguely split down the middle for me into the years before I was really aware of music (about 1980) and those after. My problem is that I end up feeling that all the albums in the second half have all been released "recently" whereas many of them were actually released about 20 years ago... Yikes!
When I was young and the shadow of the 60’s loomed large over the cultural (and particlarly music) world I always wondered what it would have been like to have been alive when those seminal albums where being recorded and released. To have been there first before everyone else got in sullying the water, telling you what to think. Now I find I have been alive through times when fantastic music has been made and I don’t have a lot to report really.
Will my kids ask me me what it was like when Screamadelica was released? Will I admit that I was actually too busy listening to Now That’s What I Call Music 12 to care?
WISDOM INFECTION
Wisdom tooth ache.
Slow low throbbing pain.
No particular origin although naturally in the jaw area.
At the start you wonder whether it’s going to get worse.
After some time you can’t concentrate on anything at all.