Thursday, May 24th, 2007, 10:12 am
Since the birth I've been at a loss for things to write. I've also been at a loss for any spare time to write about things, or even think about things to write, but that's the way it goes.
While I'm trying to think I thought I'd try a caption competition. I've uploaded this photo and can't think of a caption to go along with it so I thought I'd put it out there to see who could come up with one. The winning caption will be decided by me and no correspondance will be entered into..blahblahblah. You also win nothing.
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007, 4:40 am
So at last, almost 2 weeks late our beautiful baby daughter finally arrived. Isla Rose MacLellan was born on the 9th of May after much tugging, pulling, pushing, screaming, shouting and squeezing.
As with the final stages of the pregancy, the labour was a fairly drawn out process and fairly painful too. Actually, looking back, 'fairly painful' doesn't seem to quite do it justice. Anyway, at the peak of the pushing, pulling, etc. I decided that my words of encouragement and hand squeezing weren't quite enough so I thought I'd try and distract my wife's attention from the pain by fainting in the corner. Unfortunately I also managed to attract the attention of most of the delivery team too, but then Isla was born shortly after so I think it probably helped.
Anyway, all's well that ends well and my only problem now is trying to think of something to write in future blogs! There are some photos of Isla in her photo gallery
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007, 3:05 pm
So it looks like it's all down to the magic beans now. Hmmm, if I can't find any magic beans would sunflower seeds count? Worth a go I guess.
Maybe if I change the subject then something might happen. I've been talking about having this baby and nothing has happened, so if I don't talk about it then...yeah, that makes sense. OK, here we go.
We're on a quest to have a fairly organic garden, we couldn't claim to be completely organic as we've only been in the house a year and we don't know what went on in the garden beforehand but we're trying to make it as organic as we can. So with that in mind we hatched a plan to rid the garden of the evil hordes of aphids, greenfly, blackfly, whitefly and several other kinds of fly of varying hues. We ordered a load of lacewing larvae and ladybird larvae, the valiant warriors against all kinds of garden pests. We even bought them a little house to live in (stop laughing).
So after a while they eventually arrived (50 ladybird larvae - no lacewing yet) and I read the intructions for details on how to unleash them on the unsuspecting aphids munching on my plants. "Carefully remove each insect from the bottle and carefully place onto leaf of infected plant". Sounds fair enough.
Having nothing much to do that evening I went out at 6pm to set my little friends free.
Well.
9pm and in darkness I had barely got 10 of the little gits anywhere near a plant. They much preferred staying in the bottle or staying on my hands rather than feasting on the banquet I had provided for them. Disgusted I left the bottle at the bottom of one of the more infected plants and headed back in doors.
The next morning it was empty and unless I was much mistaken a reduced number of aphids. Perhaps it was working after all. I was a happy man. However, since that evening I've seen but one ladybird in the garden and it flew off as soon as it noticed me. Their house remains empty and there is still an aphid presence.
I wonder when the lacewings will arrive - before or after the baby...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007, 9:36 am
As you may have guessed, there have been no developments in the battle of wills between myself and my second child. He currently refuses to be born.
Well now it's time to take things to another level.
The next three days will see an intense course of treatments designed to eject said child from the safe haven of it's mothers womb.
Today my wife gets some jaggy therapy intended to get things moving.
Failing that, tomorrow we head down to the hospital for a bit of a prod.
If that fails, then I'm going to plant some magic beans and hold some storks hostage until they bring along our baby.
Sometimes you just have to be firm.
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