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Oh.  That’s--unexpected.  

Apologies.  I suppose we’ve sort of all but forgotten about these blogs.

We are all quite well, I assure you.  Life has just been quite hectic.  

Emma eats solids now.  She also likes to slide around on the floor on her belly, or prop herself up on her arms and pull herself along toward a toy she wants.  She says ‘dada’, and ‘papa’, and ‘ca’ (which is what she calls the cat), and has learned a great many BSL signs, as well.  We all communicate quite well (except for John who often mixes up his signs or executes them incorrectly, but we all love him very much anyway).

So big, and so beautiful.  Her eyes are John’s.  She has his long eyelashes.  She has his hands.  Sometimes when she’s angry she makes this face that is exactly like John, and I laugh.

She loves carrots, pears, peas.  She hates green beans.  She spits them everywhere.  John makes an angry face.  She makes the exact face back.  She’s very strong-willed and knows what she wants.

She sits up to play with her toys.  She turns when we say her name.  She asks for hugs and gives us wet kisses. She babbles away to us, and is very talkative with her babbling.  She shouts at John.  He gives her ‘the look’ when she does this, and then she laughs.  

I think in another month or so I might start teaching her simple BSL.  Then she can shout at John in sign. 😂  

Oh, you know I should discuss that with John.  Thank you for reminding me.  We both got so sick when we got home, and there was John getting caught up on his physical therapy, and my brother’s recovery to consider.  That little holiday seems a lifetime ago.

It’s rather large to strictly be considered a cottage, I suppose.  Though that is probably a good thing now we’ve got Emma, and a cat, and I really would like to get a dog at some point.

Like all cottages, all the bedrooms are upstairs.  Though, there is a little room off the lounge, which I think might have been a sort of morning room, and it has many windows, and a fire place, and at some point someone renovated it to have a small attached bath.  I think that room would make a rather lovely master bedroom.  So, theoretically, we could have a master down, with three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs.

The kitchen is rather nice.  Almost two of what we have here at Baker St., and there is a walk-in pantry.  Though what we would do with all that kitchen, I’ve no idea.  I might convert half of it to a laboratory.  

There is a large back garden, with beehives, and room enough for a kitchen garden, as well as ornamental beds with bee-friendly flowers.

We would definitely need to purchase a vehicle if we lived there, however, because there is absolutely nothing in Friston East Dean, and we would most likely be going to Eastbourne constantly.