After yesterdays lovely birthday surprise I had another pleasant one today- my PIL brought a signed copy of Kevin Crossley-Holland's The Ugly Duckling for my daughter. He came to my FIL's school (he is a caretaker) to sign books and FIL had the book dedicated to The Child. K C-H was a staple of my childhood and teenage years, I must own 5-6 of his books and he is one of the reasons I took the Ancient History path. I have many happy memories of being absorbed in his books and I am so pleased that The Child will be able to have some too. I wish I could have met him myself, but I probably would have been completely dumbstruck and unable to speak though!

So a small

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

and I will return to normality :D.