My sister-in-law Sarah with Max and Mathias's new cousin Alistair Julian Oates - born on October 17th, doubling my parents' grandchildren in just over 2 weeks!

Labour of Love

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October 21st 2008
Thank you, everyone, for all your good wishes, cards and congrats! It’s been great getting all your messages and I will be in touch properly soon to thank you all personally ... in the meantime, the blogger in me can’t resist putting pen to paper ... (you’re probably wondering how I found time! So far - and I don’t want to tempt fate here - Mathias has been an amazingly good baby!) Well, ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Surrey » Woking

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more