One Year Old Today!

Not the blog...

For all that I love reading books, and talking about them here, there are a couple of things in my life that make books look like, well… just a bunch of words on some paper. One of the real loves in my life is celebrating her first birthday today (she was born at twenty to four in the morning). This time last year Hope looked like this,



Now she looks like this (celebrating the Royal Wedding on Friday)



Happy Birthday Hope Aleta, this last year has been the best ever and it’s all down to you. You are funny and clever and have the loveliest smile I’ve ever seen. I’d really appreciate it though if you’d stop taking my books off the shelves and throwing them everywhere, please? ;o)

Hope Aleta Flory

At 3.40am on Saturday our first child was born and she is beautiful. Thirty one hours of labour was a killer for all concerned (a lot more for my wife as it all ended with a c-section being carried out...) but the end result? Well, have a look...



I am such a proud father at the moment :o) I am also incredibly proud of my wife who went through a long and painful labour and still found the time to try and make the midwives laugh at her jokes. They laughed a lot, my wife is funny after all.

The blog will continue to run but don't be surprised if, for some strange reason, you don't see as many posts round here as you normally would (for a while at least). Something amazing has happened and I intend on making the most of it...