http://www.blogapotamus.com An Unattended Baggage Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:24:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I hesitate to open with the line, "this is the most picturesque place I have ever blogged" as, at the moment, I am incapable of uploading pictures (A left-over from the Great Server Disaster) but I cannot fail to note that I am currently occupying a lovely spot on my ... http://www.blogapotamus.com/?p=688 My mother in law once told me that she and my father in law were scheduled to attend what she described as a "Tea and Dick Party". Having not long been married to my husband, I was wondering if perhaps I would have to re-evaluate what I believed that I ... http://www.blogapotamus.com/?p=686 I remember writing The Prawn's birth story some 3 years ago from a fairly bad place on the other side of a birth experience that was utterly unexpected and traumatic. Over the last few days, I've devoted a very small portion of my brain (the only part not occupied by ... http://www.blogapotamus.com/?p=685 Eleanor Kestrel Anne arrived at 1pm on Wednesday, March 17th- 7 lbs, 13 oz. More to come when mama and baby manage to make it out of hospital! :) http://www.blogapotamus.com/?p=683 The fact that people can grow other people is still kind of mind boggling to me, even though I've now been through it twice. Especially considering all of the unbelievable weirdness your body can get up to at the BEST of times, the fact that other human beings get grown ... http://www.blogapotamus.com/?p=682 Not being able to vote since my arrival in Great Britain 10 years ago has always been a bit of a burr in my metaphorical gusset. Raised in the "Rock the Vote" generation in the US, not being able to have a say in who my elected officials are has ... http://www.blogapotamus.com/?p=681 This afternoon, I've been looking back through my blog archives for late 2006 and early 2007 when I was pregnant with The Prawn, trying to draw some inspiration from the fact that, yes, pregnancy does, at some point END. Due to my body's unfortunately tendency toward miscarriage, I have pretty much ... http://www.blogapotamus.com/?p=679 So we have a franking machine in the office. As a company that sends out mostly large parcels of complicated equipment, the machine is used for the fairly limited amount of paper correspondence that goes out. In the instances that it works, it's kind of groovy, but in far MORE instances, ... http://www.blogapotamus.com/?p=678 I admit that in my literary tastes, I am vaguely stuck in my ways. I should admit right now that I am just not a non-fiction gal, especially when it comes to autobiographies. It's not that I'm uninterested in other people's lives. As a matter of fact most of the ... http://www.blogapotamus.com/?p=674 Yeah, you read that right. My last entry was on the 20th of November. I had fully intended to write a "Christmas Card Apology" post at some point, but this was just the kind of Christmas that didn't allow for little indulgences like, oh, sitting on my ass for longer ... http://www.blogapotamus.com/?p=671