That's just as well. Our congo didn't get the option of joining in (it was a choral setting), but at least they got to sit for the duration, which is more than we did.
It's a glorious day here, and I'm delighted to report that we've had a couple of guests at the birdie bistro - there were two mourning doves tucking in while I was cooking lunch. It's lovely to see them back - we had some sort of bird virus in the summer, and have hardly seen any birds at all since. I hope they go off and tell all their wee friends, so that we get some more!
If you find difficulty getting small clothes (when the time comes) and don't like what's available in premature ranges, try clothing for dolls - we found things that were far better made and the boys looked very cute in miniature dungarees.
At this stage baby en rouge only wears a nappy and a woolly hat. He's kept warm by being wrapped up in my t-shirts - previously worn so they smell like me.
He is the only person in the world EVAR who gets to share my red Freddie Mercury t-shirt .
@TheOrganist, same thing here. Chanel No 5 was the scent on my mother's dresser all my life. My dad was a pilot in the air force and a big part of that, to me, meant that he and mom got dressed up for elegant parties and Chanel No 5 was central watching my mother get ready. Be strong little baby en rouge!
Powerful stuff perfume! When I was in hospital, aged very young, I had my mother's handkerchief under my pillow to make me brave - a whiff of 'Je Reviens' is all it took. A Freddie Mercury T Shirt is way more cool!
Indeed - there can be few things cooler than a Freddie t-shirt! Will it instil in baby en rouge your obviously exquisite taste in rock music?
Scents can be very evocative, can't they? I can't tell you how pleased I was when I discovered that if I braved going into W*l-M*rt I could still get "Wild Musk" - the scent of my youth (and it's ridiculously cheap too).
It's another glorious day here, and the space between the sn*w-banks on the driveway seems to be getting bigger - maybe we won't have to trade in the Pigletmobile for a sledge after all ...
You mean that you're disappointed that we interrupted the scheduled talk about trains to coo over a baby?
Another week, another ambulance crew - this time we spent Sunday night in A&E, because my daughter was struggling to breathe at around 10pm, was just about under control after the midnight antihistamine and steroid medications, but had almost run out of allowed daily doses of ventolin reliever. We called NHS 111 who sent an ambulance and were very glad we'd gone in, because come 3am she ended up in Resuscitation for about half an hour as she was really struggling to breathe again. Lots of grumbling in the sitting out for observation space as people were there for hours, and we queue jumped spectacularly before sitting back down for another 4 hours. She has a chest infection on top of the allergies. Actually, most of the rest of the group were pretty understanding as they were waiting for blood results to come back before seeing a doctor and were being seen as things happened.
I did spot one of the ambulance crew who took me in walking through A&E in the middle of the night, but he didn't notice me.
If you're happy with the ambulance crew, and what they did for you and daughter, do please let the relevant ambulance service know. Speaking from experience, positive feedback (as they say on eBay) is always welcome, and can really lift morale!
You mean that you're disappointed that we interrupted the scheduled talk about trains to coo over a baby?
Actually, no - my Nerdometer had already moved well into the red area! But I was concerned to read about your "adventures" with your daughter, hope she's OK.
Yes, a brief shower just as we were getting into the car. As we were driving through southern outskirts of Edinburgh we could see the curtain of precipitation against the clearer sky following.
{{{CK and Curious Kitten}}} - that seems like a very scary few hours for you both.
We haven't had hail, although I think we had a wee bit of freezing rain last night. Now we just seem to have clouds, which is just fine by me.
Gearing up for a busy few days - Tenebrae this evening, then making soup and bread for a communal feed at the Cathedral before the Maundy Thursday service. Fortunately the choir isn't needed on Friday - they're doing some sort of Taizė thing with the band - and then we're on again on Saturday evening and Sunday.
I love Easter, but there does tend to be rather a lot of it! Quite hacked off to be missing our monthly Evensong though* - whose idea was it to have Easter Day fall on the first Sunday of the month?
* D. would have been happy for us to do Evensong, but with our rehearsal time having been messed about with so much, it really wasn't practical, and I'm not sure the choir would have worn it.
Very nice Tenebrae service this evening - we sang the psalms to plainsong, and did Healey Willan's Responsories, and the whole thing came together very well. One service down, a few to go ...
At a meeting of the Kirk Session recently I was running through all the holy week services in the diary: schools services, Maundy Thursday service, Good Friday service, Easter Services, and the next on my eye lit on was Boiler service. I was gently reminded that I wouldn't need to put a liturgy together for that one!
At a meeting of the Kirk Session recently I was running through all the holy week services in the diary: schools services, Maundy Thursday service, Good Friday service, Easter Services, and the next on my eye lit on was Boiler service. I was gently reminded that I wouldn't need to put a liturgy together for that one!
"Lord, we thank thee for the faithful service of this boiler, laying aside in a spirit of true Christian forgiveness the memory of when it broke down just before the Carol Service. We commend it to thy keeping, trusting that it will soldier on with the minimum of costly maintenance for this coming year. In your mercy, hear our prayer".
<votive> for the Kitten. That sounds awful. Chest infections are not fun at the best of times, never mind with other breathing problems.
ION, has anyone else had hail?
A heavy shower yesterday afternoon - I was walking home from school with the Dafling major - about five minutes leaving a small stream flowing down by the side of the pavement into the drain.
"Lord, we thank thee for the faithful service of this boiler, laying aside in a spirit of true Christian forgiveness the memory of when it broke down just before the Carol Service. We commend it to thy keeping, trusting that it will soldier on with the minimum of costly maintenance for this coming year. In [thy] mercy, hear our prayer".
Then shall the Boiler be censed three times, with triple swings, and aspersed three times with Holy Water, taking great care not to extinguish the pilot light.
The sanctuary/boiler-room party shall then retire, all wearing a melancholy aspect.
I fundraised and named a Guide Dog puppy Rachel, in loving memory of my Mum. She is born and I’ve been sent a photo - a full Golden Retriever who was born on the 5th February 2018, Mum Isobel and Dad Pascale. What a gorgeous wee teddy bear!
Boogie, she's so cute! (I nearly said "adorable", but a friend put a video on f/b of 2 American infants complaining that their parents hadn't bought an "adorable" puppy - I'm afraid my reaction was that the children were brats!)
Boogie, she's so cute! (I nearly said "adorable", but a friend put a video on f/b of 2 American infants complaining that their parents hadn't bought an "adorable" puppy - I'm afraid my reaction was that the children were brats!)
[tangent] Many millennia ago I attended a birthday party (I was probably 4 or 5), where the birthday girl was given a doll I thought was quite ugly. (I was never a big fan of dolls anyway, preferring stuffed animals.) The birthday girl's mother exclaimed how "adorable" the doll was, so I assumed for a long time that "adorable" was synonymous with "ugly." [/tangent]
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Since you mentioned weighty matters...
One kilo! One whole kilo! Or seeing that you geeky types seem to like precision, one kilo and thirty grams today
Go baby en rouge!
IJ
Yay!
IJ
Mind you, a nice red blanket might look well....
IJ
It's a glorious day here, and I'm delighted to report that we've had a couple of guests at the birdie bistro - there were two mourning doves tucking in while I was cooking lunch. It's lovely to see them back - we had some sort of bird virus in the summer, and have hardly seen any birds at all since. I hope they go off and tell all their wee friends, so that we get some more!
(You can't use dashes for the missing letters on the new ship!)
Huge hurrah for baby en rouge - long may he continue to grow! Definitely at the bag of sugar stage - is the next stage a bag of flour?
There's a beef casserole on the stove - help yourselves!
If you find difficulty getting small clothes (when the time comes) and don't like what's available in premature ranges, try clothing for dolls - we found things that were far better made and the boys looked very cute in miniature dungarees.
He is the only person in the world EVAR who gets to share my red Freddie Mercury t-shirt
My children even now only need to get a whiff of Chanel No 5 and they well-up because it is the smell of their mother.
Scents can be very evocative, can't they? I can't tell you how pleased I was when I discovered that if I braved going into W*l-M*rt I could still get "Wild Musk" - the scent of my youth (and it's ridiculously cheap too).
It's another glorious day here, and the space between the sn*w-banks on the driveway seems to be getting bigger - maybe we won't have to trade in the Pigletmobile for a sledge after all ...
I trust his Woolly Hat is a bright red, yes?
IJ
Another week, another ambulance crew - this time we spent Sunday night in A&E, because my daughter was struggling to breathe at around 10pm, was just about under control after the midnight antihistamine and steroid medications, but had almost run out of allowed daily doses of ventolin reliever. We called NHS 111 who sent an ambulance and were very glad we'd gone in, because come 3am she ended up in Resuscitation for about half an hour as she was really struggling to breathe again. Lots of grumbling in the sitting out for observation space as people were there for hours, and we queue jumped spectacularly before sitting back down for another 4 hours. She has a chest infection on top of the allergies. Actually, most of the rest of the group were pretty understanding as they were waiting for blood results to come back before seeing a doctor and were being seen as things happened.
I did spot one of the ambulance crew who took me in walking through A&E in the middle of the night, but he didn't notice me.
If you're happy with the ambulance crew, and what they did for you and daughter, do please let the relevant ambulance service know. Speaking from experience, positive feedback (as they say on eBay) is always welcome, and can really lift morale!
IJ
ION, has anyone else had hail?
Yes, a brief shower just as we were getting into the car. As we were driving through southern outskirts of Edinburgh we could see the curtain of precipitation against the clearer sky following.
IJ
We haven't had hail, although I think we had a wee bit of freezing rain last night. Now we just seem to have clouds, which is just fine by me.
Gearing up for a busy few days - Tenebrae this evening, then making soup and bread for a communal feed at the Cathedral before the Maundy Thursday service. Fortunately the choir isn't needed on Friday - they're doing some sort of Taizė thing with the band - and then we're on again on Saturday evening and Sunday.
I love Easter, but there does tend to be rather a lot of it! Quite hacked off to be missing our monthly Evensong though* - whose idea was it to have Easter Day fall on the first Sunday of the month?
* D. would have been happy for us to do Evensong, but with our rehearsal time having been messed about with so much, it really wasn't practical, and I'm not sure the choir would have worn it.
Best wishes to both Baby Rouge and Kitten.
"Lord, we thank thee for the faithful service of this boiler, laying aside in a spirit of true Christian forgiveness the memory of when it broke down just before the Carol Service. We commend it to thy keeping, trusting that it will soldier on with the minimum of costly maintenance for this coming year. In [thy] mercy, hear our prayer".
Then shall the Boiler be censed three times, with triple swings, and aspersed three times with Holy Water, taking great care not to extinguish the pilot light.
The sanctuary/boiler-room party shall then retire, all wearing a melancholy aspect.
IJ
My immediate thought was This Little Light of Mine but it's apparently a folk/gospel song, or Give me oil in my boiler (lamp)
I fundraised and named a Guide Dog puppy Rachel, in loving memory of my Mum. She is born and I’ve been sent a photo - a full Golden Retriever who was born on the 5th February 2018, Mum Isobel and Dad Pascale. What a gorgeous wee teddy bear!
Siblings Thomas, Blue, Poppy and Olive.
Rachel
IJ
[tangent] Many millennia ago I attended a birthday party (I was probably 4 or 5), where the birthday girl was given a doll I thought was quite ugly. (I was never a big fan of dolls anyway, preferring stuffed animals.) The birthday girl's mother exclaimed how "adorable" the doll was, so I assumed for a long time that "adorable" was synonymous with "ugly." [/tangent]
Happy birthday to Mrs. BT - have fun with the grand-BT!
SOUP has been manufactured for the Cathedral supper, the loaves have just come out of the oven and it's a glorious day (9° and sunny, since you ask).
I do believe we might be heading towards Spring.
Regarding hymns for the Boiler Service, how about Fire of God, thou sacred flame?
Or just a few "pot-boilers" ...
I'll get my coat.
Happy Birthday to Mrs Baptist Trainfan.