Posted in Childbirth, Football, Pregnancy, Public Transport, Russia, tagged Euro 2008, European Cup 2008 on July 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
So the contractions you were displaying proudly for the world here on the 20th, weren’t.
They were, according to the midwives, ’tightenings’ and, officially, did not hurt.
A comment which, by your third visit to the hospital for monitoring, after you had had a night of napping for five or ten minutes before being catapulted upright by a [...]
Posted in Pregnancy on June 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »
It turns out that cooking chili last night was a mistake. At least in so much as you were hoping to [ow] hang on to the Star for another couple of days.
Of course, as this was mainly so you could watch the Russia/ Netherlands football match and the Magny Cours Grand Prix in peace, perhaps you have come [...]
Posted in Education, Pregnancy on May 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
One of the side effects of being a teacher is that you often find yourself musing on what makes your students tick.
Well, perhaps ’side effect’ is the wrong phrase. ‘Secret guilty pleasure’ bordering on ’the main reason why you do it’ is probably closer to the mark.
Generally this focuses on what they are like as learners so [...]
Posted in Cinema, History, Patriotism, Pregnancy, Russia, War, tagged 9 Rota, 9th Company, Afghanistan, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Iraq, Vietnam on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
A couple of weeks ago they showed a Russian film about the Russian Afghan war on TV called 9 Rota, or 9th Company.
You actually saw this when it first came out back in 2005 or thereabouts, but settled in to watch it anyway as you remembered it as being quite good, and in any case [...]
Posted in Britain, Citizenship, Nodnol, Pregnancy, Travel, tagged Heathrow on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, you went to the airport to see off Mother In Law after her epic three month visit.
So there you are, sitting in the cafe having a last cup of tea before sending her off to brave the security gauntlet, when you notice that there’s a number of cabin crew types drinking coffee there too.
You were idly pondering over this - [...]
Posted in Pregnancy on April 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The doctor kept you waiting for 40 minutes this morning simply because, you discovered once you had actually made it into her office, she likes to chat.
This, however, is not important. What is important is that in between the five anecdotes about her own pregnancy which she managed to showhorn into the measuring and prodding [...]
Posted in Pregnancy on April 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
You have to confess that you find the Star’s complete insistence on you eating healthily somewhat obnoxious.
There is something perverse, in you opinion, about the amount of fruit and veg he thinks is the minimum necessary for your combined survival.
This has been particularly hard to bear given that it is winter. You are heartily sick [...]
Posted in Pregnancy on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Of course, ‘rocketing out of your chair shouting obscenities at the TV’ has been a bit hard of late given that you developed horrendous backache last week.
‘Flopping over onto your side and using all available furniture and husbands to pull yourself up while whimpering before waddling slowly off like a duck’ would definitely have been more [...]
Posted in Clothes, Pregnancy, tagged NCT nearly new on March 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
You went to an NCT sale today. Elbows at dawn to hold off all the other mums or mums-to-be as you all dive simultaneously for that Natty Designer Babysock sort of thing.
You went with Best Friend, as it occurred to you that having a bone fide mother in tow might help you start to navigate your way [...]
Posted in Choir, Classical Music, Language, Music, Pregnancy, Russian, The Rest of the World, tagged Durufle's Requiem, Maurice Durufle on March 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Incidentally, you did find something new out in your first trimester, and that is that it is impossible to sing while pregnant.
Unfortunately, you discovered this by collapsing in the middle of the winter concert of your choir.
Interesting programme. You have now added two new singing languages to your repertoire: French and Russian.
French, the conductor spent [...]
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