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No, not really but that's how it feels... supposedly you lose more hair post-partum. I hope it ends soon, because that was one heck of a lot of hair gone when I combed my conditioner through!

(I got Aliza to stay mostly quiet in her cot for 10 minutes so I could have a shower. Yay :) )

They have it great, don't they? Aliza just got fed, then changed--she's now lounging around sucking her fingers, clad only in an very cute purple diaper (very round tummy since she just sucked down a full bottle--give her an hour and she'll be a skinny minnie again). I gave her a good bounce to "Sinnerman" and she rewarded me with a terrific belch. The child clearly takes after her parents.

I think I shall bounce her again.

David Cameron's anti-grammar school policy is effectively a continuation of 30 years of Tory policy. You know who abolished more grammar schools than anyone else? Margaret Thatcher. The Tories were in power from 1979 to 1997; did they ever make any moves to re-introduce selection? No. Are they moving to abolish the existing grammar schools? No. So the Tory press going apeshit is pointless. It has been Tory policy for decades, even if the party leadership would never come out and say it. Lord Tebbit's claims that the party's policy should include new selective schools is cloud-cuckoo. I believe that attempts to re-establish grammars were made in a few areas, and they failed because parents didn't want them.

Basically Cameron and Willetts pointed out that the emperor had no clothes, and then everyone pretended to be surprised.