I guess the scan above gives it away but I can finally release the news that we are going to be having another baby!

It’s due next February and will increase the RoysWorld clan to five including me and P. As well as the usual spell of nest making, we are looking at which new car would be suitable for carrying us all.

Billy had a dream (before we told him) that he had a new baby sister, so it remains to see whether his prediction of its sex is correct.

We’ve just return from a 4 night break at Moores Farm in Somerset; it’s a “Featherdown Farm” which means you stay in one of their tents pictured above. Now I say tent, but they’re really more like a log cabin with canvas roof and sides. It can sleep six, has running (cold) water, a toilet, and wood-burning stove that you can use to boil up water and cook on. In the center of our group of tents (there are only five and they’re spread apart) was a paddock with a few hens, goats and sheep. The kids loved chasing the animals and searching for eggs: so much so that we had plenty to do at the farm that we didn’t bother with our trips to Longleat and Cheddar (including a good hour spent chasing a tricky sheep that the kids let out of the paddock). We cooked all the meals on the stove (that was fun in itself) and had a fantastic time. My only regret was that we didn’t stay for the week. We will definitely be back next year, and I would highly recommend it to anyone with kids.

James pointed me to XKCD: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Loads of the cartoons made me laugh, but I particularly liked this one: