Was reading the last
in the list when William Robert Sawyer was born! Not at the actual point of
birth of course, as that would show a casual indifference to the birth of our
third child, but the book was in the hospital with me, and I did sneak a few pages
between contractions. Helen set a precedent by picking up her copy of Terry
Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's 'Good Omens', so I felt it was ok for me to follow
suit. So Volume III of Bullock's Bevin joins Marina Lewycka's 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian'
and Trevor Dean's 'Crime in Medieval Europe: 1200-1550' in a very special
trinity of books.
Young Billy is doing
well, feeding ok and giving Helen just about enough sleep. We were quite
shocked that the grandparents weren't at all keen on the name though; they're
perfectly happy with William, but my Dad and Helen's Mum in particular were
dead set against Billy or Bill.
Freddie's friend Luke has just had a little brother called Ben, and when
his mum suggested that the new arrivals were 'Bill and Ben', Helen's mum was
very quick to correct it to 'WILL and Ben'.
If Bill had been a girl he would probably have been a Matilda, which
also turned out to be anathema to all four grandparents and Helen's
brother.
Freddie & Libby
have been very good with their new baby brother. Well, to be fair, Libby has
been very good and taken an interest (she’s perhaps slightly over-possessive –
MY BABY! GIVE HIM ME!); Freddie is just vaguely aware there is another presence
in the house. It’s possible that until young Billy can kick a ball or discuss
Star Wars he’ll remain off Fred’s radar completely.
