Swings and roundabouts (and duvets)

[ailbhe]

Last night I was wondering what exactly TOG means. I mean, yes, how warm it keeps you - but what does it measure? What does TOG stand for? The best I can come up with is Thermal Outerwear Grade.

Today we brought Linnea to play on the swings, but the playground was closed, so we walked along to the next one. This one has baby swings, with safe seats to put the baby in so she could swing on her own! It was so grown-up my heart almost broke. She quite liked the roundabout but wasn't very keen on the slide.

Rob baked a birthday cake for our friend Ellie; a sponge cake made of eggs, flour and sugar. It was great; he's never baked a cake entirely unsupervised before and it came out beautifully. And the best part is that I can eat it because it has no butter in it! We put apricot jam on it and everyone else had whipped cream too. Getting a sponge cake right first time with an oven that randomly adjusts its own temperature and has no thermostat at all is a serious achievement, I think.

Many people think I'm crazy for not putting photos of Linnea online when I discuss her in my journal, especially since I discuss such deeply private, personal and shameful things as the state of my perineum for all the world to see. I'm still not putting pictures up. Some people can have copies emailed to them, but not everyone. I don't like the idea of photos of my baby being Out There, and the universe will have to cope with that.

You can always make do with the nursery rhymes instead.

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[ailbhe]

Dairy and soya are for Linnea's sake. I love dairy.