Whistle stop tour of late September: another baby, another continent!
Bursting with news here! The most important first. There is another new baby in the family. I know, I know. My cup runneth over. How delightful. The family is full of babies. Younger son and his wife had their second child ten days ago, another little girl. She arrived in haste and was delivered by her father, fortunately a doctor, in a layby on the A38 as they were driving to the hospital. We will be meeting the new arrival on Sunday. I blogged here about the arrival of their first baby. Every time a grandchild arrives is different and every time it moves me profoundly. This is the first time we have been out of the country when a baby has been born and that felt very strange but we were woken early in the morning in New York with a facetime call from the jubilant parents and had the chance to see their faces and the first sight of the new baby. Since then pictures and calls have kept us in touch but I can'...