What's made you smile today? (Part II)

Bringing my son, Charlie, home today, born at 05:40 yesterday after 23hrs in labour @ 7lbs2oz (3.25kg). Both mum and baby well, but obviously exhausted yesterday after their ordeal. I couldn't stay much after the birth thanks to COVID, but I was there through the whole time otherwise.

Women are absolute machines and any misogynist who calls them the weaker sex can get a punch in the face from this feminist, and my wife too probably.

Congratulations to you both

Congratulations to all of you.

What a beautiful baby. Many congratulations. Is he your first? We had 3 - Boy, girl, boy and I was very surprised at the depth of emotion I experienced when my first boy was born - It took me completely by surprise, tears streaming down my face! It's a very special time in one's life, hang on to and enjoy every single moment of it! In my youth lots of stuff seemed important - Work, cars, leisure activities, holidays, etc. Now, in my mid '70s, I realize there is nothing as important as Family and, despite all the rubbish that gets in the way as your children grow up it's never a waste of time and it's always good to prioritize building strong bonds and giving support to your children. Life is wonderful when, in your old age, you are surrounded by your loving children and the grandchildren are the absolute icing on the cake! Again congratulations and a big "well done" to your wife - I was there through the whole "procedure" for all 3 of ours and it's astonishing how our womenfolk cope with it all. Thank goodness for the Entonox!

Congratulations to you and your wife, and welcome to the world Charlie !!

Happy birthday

Thansk all.

@ Jock - Yes, first and only for us, we always said we were only having 1 and with the first three months of this pregnancy being marred by HG (Hyperemesis gravidarum), and how difficult the labour was I can safely say that that decision is not going to be challenged!

Congratulations Eklipze3k!!!

If you ever need any advice...don't ask me I've got no idea what I'm doing

Although the fact that he's still alive after 2 years and we've worked through 5 different allergies successfully would suggest winging it is a valid strategy.

What a simply wonderful post I totally agree with all you say here and add my congratulations to yours. So nice to hear genuinely good news.

baby event in aldi https://www.aldi.co.uk/c/specialbuys/dates/2021-01-14

Just placed order for parts with S4p. Had to ring them about a couple of parts I was unsure about. Very impressed with the friendly and efficient way my queries were dealt with - which has been my experience in the past. Our Panda is a 2010 1.2 with the 60 Hp engine but they changed the 169 model to the newer 69Hp engine just shortly after ours. S4p list the 169 up to '09 as a "Panda 11" and from '09 to '12 as a Panda 111 but the engine changed early 2011 so there can be confusion. Once you give them a ring with your reg no/ vin no they soon sort it out though. We chatted briefly as he was checking his catalogue cross references and I was asking whether they were finding a particular demand for anything? Oh yes said he, 500 driver's door handles! Handling orders for up to five a day! Seems people are heaving on frozen shut doors and the handle is the weak link.

So, take care 500 people. Maybe trigger the latch with the handle and then get a finger round the door frame to pull it open if it's frozen shut?

Ordered some poppy seeds... going to discreetly sprinkle them over the corners of the WW2 (corrected: originally WW1, then both WWs) memorial in the centre of the city here - beautiful sculpture, left to rot by our council - with built in to each corner flower beds, just sitting with plain grass... I think some poppies will definitely spruce it up!

Read the instructions.
Wild poppies sprout after the soil has been disturbed, which is why they don't come up every year. Don't know about others, so instructions may require you to do a little work, rather than just scatter and 'feed the birds'.

Damn, I'll need to be careful then. I'll try my best to follow them. Maybe need to come back and drop some soil over them once scattered in hope it'll work...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_War_Memorial

This is the sculpture, I think it's stunning. Just (these days) in bad shape. I seen photos from the 50s and 60s when it was well maintained and in much better shape (it's been there since 1927). And yet today we've got calls from local people complaining that it's an eyesore... (We also have local people who cry out that they'd rather be speaking German... that's the kind of stupidity this statue has to stand amongst) Lol

A WW2 Memorial built in 1927

Sounds so 'futuristic' perhaps they were sold it as 'self maintaining'..

Back in the early eighties, working at a large Rover dealer, we arrived one morning to find a Metro on the forecourt missing its driver's door handle.
Shortly afterwards, a very embarrassed policeman arrived, brandishing his own cheque book. On night duty the night before, walking the streets, bored and lonely, he wandered around the forecourt cars, checking they were all locked. The Metro handle came off. Oops. He's reported this back at the station, and had been told to go and pay for it.
We charged him cost price, and one of the lads in the preparation bay fitted it. Easy in those days, door card off, two nuts, unhitch the link rods.