Author: Ms Editor

Saturday 21 August 1999 Last weekend was a bit of a nightmare. You started behaving a bit unusually on Friday night (sleeping a lot), then you were whining all day on Saturday. I thought you were teething, so I gave you some Calpol. You were either awake and moaning or asleep… We went to sleep…

Thursday 05 August 1999 Your dad got the job! He’s really happy with it and has started already, but this means we won’t be going down to Cornwall for the eclipse on Wednesday. But there should be 95% visibility in London, which is cool. It was my birthday yesterday: 28 years old! It didn’t feel…

Tuesday 27th of July 1999 On Sunday we went to Alexandra Palace with Emma for a picnic, and two of her friends were there. We got there at around 3:30 in the afternoon, and about an hour later it started raining! So we went for a drink outside the palace’s pub (by the time we…

Wednesday 21st of July 1999 Your father and I are still together, and I just read the bit above to him, we’re friends again but for how long? R. took you to have a hearing test yesterday (all 7 month old babies have it done) and everything was fine. In the meantime I was at…

Sunday 4th of July 1999 According to the interpreters of Nostradamus prophecies, the world was supposed to end today or thereabouts. We’ve been waiting, but nothing has happened! For the first time in my life I actually hoped the world wouldn’t end (I was fearless before you were born), but now I want to see…