The big news is that
Bibs is walking! The 6 or 7 tentative steps that resulted in a round of
applause a week ago is long gone, to be replaced by a very confident toddler
striding around the place. We went into town on Friday for a family day at
Nomura and he was in his element charging around Helen's work.
Really enjoyed both
these books. The first was a social history of Britain at a very strange time:
invasion loomed from across the channel, industrialisation was transforming
Britain and the responses to the changes in circumstances varied so much; from
those who chose to ignore it all and live in a splendidly isolated bubble of
balls and gossip to millenialists, rioters and many more. 'The Iron King' was
recommended as 'the original Game of Thrones' by George R R Martin, and concerns the Capetians and
Plantagenets competing claims over the throne of medieval France. I'm so used
to seeing this period from the 'english' perspective it was good to get a
different view over the power struggles and jockeying for position and
territory. It's the first of a long series, but could make for good holiday
reading, as well as providing a history lesson!
Fred and I went to
Wales on Saturday to see the game against Ireland. It was a beautiful weekend,
and we met Clayton for lunch in the Bay, which meant we could get a boat from there all the way to the stadium; will definitely
employ that tactic for future games . Fred was a little bit awestruck at first
when we went in, but the noise soon got a bit much for him. At half time he
complained 'It's too noisy and I don't know what's going on'. He perked up for
the second half when Wales started to perform, and his highlight was the
animated dragon scoring a try on the jumbotron when Wales got the ball over the
line. . .
He hasn’t taken his
Wales shirt off since, although that might be because it looks like it's made
from dragon skin. . .
