Welcome Little Lady

Little Lady is born! After an emergency caesarean, a very worrying time, baby is stable and healthy. Mum is doing well and Dad is just about recovering!
Now I have to prepare for duty as resident Nana for five months. Just a little more daunting than going to Australia for a holiday, but extremely exciting – I’ll be back when the daffodils appear next year!

I have been to Japan three times to embrace my grandchildren there and I recall the first time standing amidst the very modern, very high rise, very high tech, staggeringly busy urban life in Yokohama and thinking, ‘how can a rather ordinary, working class girl from a really restricted, culturally limited background with no experience of travelling any further than a coach trip to the east coast of England ever contemplate taking a flight, alone, to Tokyo and then a long coach trip to Yokohama?’

The child I was would have been totally amazed and then totally sceptical given this insight into my future! How eventually children give you courage and determination to do whatever is at all possible.

I have also been to Australia, alone, to Alice Springs, to visit Alexander and Charity when they were living there nearly two years ago. That was an extremely tedious journey, but what an enlightening and rewarding holiday! Alice Springs is very much in the middle of nowhere – impossible almost to drive anywhere else in less than a few days.

                                     
                                                                 Alice Springs

But now north east Queensland, which Alan and I went to for three weeks this summer, is where I am heading in four weeks – baby was due three weeks later than she arrived - so on with preparing our house for winter, tidy up the garden etc. etc. and most important spend as much time as possible with our two Welsh grandchildren whom I will miss dreadfully!