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Recently:

• Had scan, attended ante-natal appointment with consultant who says I don't need to see a consultant. Goodo.
• Filled in paperwork to change GPs since the one we were with is awful. Hopefully the new one will accept us; they are certainly taking on new patients because they said so.
• Ruth came to dinner, which was nice but brief. She brought wine, which we weren't able to finish. I ought to warn people not to bring us wine, because we always have half to a third of a bottle left over, which seems terribly wasteful.
• Rob arranged with Darrell to get the cats fed while we're away.
• We failed to get Janice a cat-exporting basket; she will have to get one online, we think.
• Cleaned kitchen and bathroom to within an inch of my life; by the end of it my hands were all tingly from the cleaning fluids and bleach. Had a lovely shower to recover. Rob is amazed at how much horizontal surface there actually is in the house.
• Rob had his work Christmas party, which was ok but apparently not very exciting. He discussed incipient fatherhood with another expectant father in his company. Apparently it's not really real and he expects to go into shock when it's actually born. I offered to stop telling him all about it to preserve the sense of mystery and heighten the magic of That Important Moment, but he got upset and threatened to sulk.
• I wake early, eat, wait for the baby to stop kicking me, and then keel over and sleep until 10 or 11. I wonder how similar its sleeping pattern will be post-partum?
• We've sent all the postal service cards and only have the hand-delivery ones to do.
• Reading, apparently, has no homelessness problem. That's why it doesn't need a shelter. Tell it to the girl who was so cold she was almost asleep on Wednesday night. Her sleeping bag had been stolen. Humph. At least Rob's old tshirts and jumpers have gone somewhere they're really needed. Last night wasn't that cold, too.
• Janice gave me a baby sling for Christmas. It's perfect. It can be put on and adjusted easily with one hand, and besides, it's blue and purple batik. Thank goodness; I was terribly afraid I'd end up with a Baby Bjorn, which is the only modern-style one we've found my hands are capable of operating.

Soon:

• Today: Call new GP to confirm we've been accepted.
• Today: Finish packing for trip to Dublin, which includes *fear* ironing.
• Today: Finish cleaning the house so that we come back to something habitable.
• Today: Call the airline to tell them that my name has been misspelled on my ticket, and check if that will be a problem.
• Today: Write and drop off local cards.
• Tomorrow: Go to Dublin
• Sunday: Maybe go to solstice party
• Monday: Be visited in Mum's house by Aunt.
• Sunday 28 December: Come home from Dublin.
• Monday 29 December: Make GP appt for ante-natal visit for on or around Fri 02 January.
• 09-11 January: Go to Leiden Videomeet, which actually means watching RotK in Eindhoven.
• 17-24 January: Winter visit to the Swedish relatives
• 29 January: First Anti-D jab.
• 11 March: Second Anti-D jab.
• 17 April: Attend a wedding.
• 22 April: Give birth.