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My uncle sent us one of these:
http://www.theflowerstork.com/cat--Babywear-Bouquets--bouquets.html

Really cute! (And practical too)

Neil checked my family's flight status this morning. "VS010 - Cancelled". We ring my dad. They consolidated VS010 onto a delayed VS046 (the 20:00 flight). OK. Flight took off 1h20 late.

Apparently, VS046, scheduled arrival of 07:40, actual arrival 12:00. ?!?!? I wonder what happened.

Well, that's one wasted minicab booking.... sorry Mum, you're shelling out for a black taxi now :( (I can't really be blamed here, I booked it correctly; you can't really anticipate a flight being this late can you?)

Khaled Meshad, the political leader of Hamas:
"It is true that in reality there will be an entity or state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is a reality, but I won't deal with it in terms of recognising or admitting it."

So, you've admitted the reality, but you won't admit it. Right!

(Of course, the British media will promote this as Hamas coming closer to recognising Israel....)

I just spoke to my sister and got the story (I got held up at the hospital all afternoon).

The flight took off an hour late. They got to Heathrow. Heathrow was backed up. They circled for 1h45. They were about to run out of fuel. So the flight landed at Stansted. Now, the sensible thing, IMO, would have been to ferry all the passengers to Heathrow. But no. They stayed at Stansted an hour and a half to refuel, then FLEW the passengers to Heathrow. (OK, they'd still have to fly the plane to Heathrow, but at least they could have got the passengers there.) Then they couldn't get to the gate because it was flooded.

My mother managed to contact the minicab firm, they were there in 10 minutes, and they finally got to their hotel at 14:30.

Virgin didn't even offer to comp them! I told her to complain.

Funnily enough, my family are all knackered and aren't coming up here this evening.

I went back to the hospital today to have my wound looked at. It's better, apparently, but they put more Surgi-Strips on. It hurts like hell. In fact, it's been getting progressively more painful over the past few days. The visiting midwife will check it again tomorrow and I'm going to tell her that I'm really unhappy with it. It's not healing well because it's in a skin fold (I just know the midwife and doctor were discussing my weight when they moved away so I couldn't hear the conversation, based on the way they'd been looking at me and each other, and that didn't make me pleased. Aside from which, I imagine this is an issue with most C-sections especially if you had any sort of stomach pre-pregnancy.) I'm also almost out of co-dydramol :( And my damn back keeps spasming.

Meanwhile, my milk still isn't in and I'm trying not to worry as I know it's being delayed by the section, pain meds, and iron deficiency. I'm getting a little colostrum with the Swing (pumping regularly!); the Symphony arrived this afternoon, and I'll be switching to it tonight. Neil's already cracked the cow jokes (he's being very supportive so is allowed to say "moo" and pretend to be frightened at it). No "baby blues" yet but the antidepressants might have something to do with it. The SoftCup feeder really is good, much easier than cup feeding would be and almost as fast as a bottle! (the bottles have been relegated to mixing and storing, so we cna have several feeds waiting to go, and just wash out the feeder between uses). The only trouble is, it doesn't let her comfort-suck like a bottle or breast would (she does get the breast but not enough) so we're reduced to letting her suck on our fingers.

Aliza's looking particularly adorable today in a yellow velour sleep suit :) I might take a photo if she wakes up in a bit.