Stroud Green Baby

andy

did we get a stroud green baby at the weekend?

dion

Not from us. Poxy was still posting over the weekend so unless he is extremely dedicated and up there with technology, I doubt it. Ours is due on Thursday...

poxy

Not here either. Ours was due at the weekend. However, I think he took one peek at the snow and decided to stay where he is until the weather improves.

Giles

The first one is normally last - two weeks of hot curries and going on the swings for Mrs Poxy coming up.

matt

I can recommend some good curry houses Giles: last = late? a Freudian slip?

katiejane

Mmmmm - I'm off to JK tonight - that reminded me!

dominic

Katiejane, have you got something to tell us?

Giles

I did mean late - and the last one was late but not the last, that'll be the one that's due in September ( or more likely October )

dion

We went to Red Rose Tandoori on Holloway Road last time - a madras and a couple of cobra worked a treat.

dion

@Poxy - you around? or gone in already? might be in ourselves tomorrow morning sometime...

Giles

I love the flyers from the Red Rose - Red Rose Tandoori as recommended by The Darkness, Ann Widecombe, Anthony Worrall Thompson and the Whittington midwives...

dion

Hooray! A baby girl! We got to the Whittington at 6am, baby arrived at 6.45am. Just got home.

andy

Congratulations! Right on cue

dominic

Wahoo! Well done to you. Oh, and the mum I suppose.

Liz

geoff, did you ring your family before or after your post?!

dion

I did get to my family first; unfortunately the Whittington doesn't have wifi. The midwives were good and tried hard to get us home the same day. I can sense a lot more early morning comments from me over the next few months...

katiejane

Fantastic news geoff - big congratulations to you and mrs geoff! Of course you did all the hard work ; )

poxy

Congratulations to Geoff and family.

No progress here. it would appear that Pixy (do you see what I've done there?) is a tad shy.

matt

Happy Babies to you all

poxy

Arthur Alexander entered this world thirty minutes into yesterday. Eight days late but we shall love him all the more as a result.

Some of the more connected of you folk may find a photo on a certain flickr.com website.

Of course, I think he's beautiful. Mother is doing well also.

andy

Arthur Alexander Poxy. A lovely name. Congratulations. We should set up a "who has the best baby" poll.

katiejane

Cool name! Congratulations to you both! Sounds like Arthur could be a potential suitor for our Elsie when he's a bit older!

dominic

Arthur? Elsie? What is this, 1874?

dion

Yes, names have gone retro. We get them by looking up where we live on the census websites, and then calling them after people who used to live in our houses. Our new one is called Esme Rose. I think they are all better than dominic, if that is your real name. @Poxy - how did you manage to get a photo up so quickly? Don't you have anything else to do?

andy

Great name, Esme, because it's one of my favourite Salinger stories (for esme, with love and squalor)

David

If there has to be a trend, retro names aren't so bad. It's better than that craze for stupid things like Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches or Pixie.

Or God forbid, Heavenly Hirrani Tiger Lily.

rainbow_carnage

Ooh, I Iove old-fashioned names. Esme is particularly good. I'm a total Salinger geek... er... I mean fan. I actually wrote an essay on that story when I was in school. And I have a character called "Esme" in one of my own (vastly inferior) works.

Congratulations to the parents!

andy

I have similar feelings about Salinger - though i think franny and zooey is my favourite. This should probably be another thread.

andy

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_Stallone>; Sage Moonblood?

dominic

@geoff - you're absolutely right.

hooofck

Congratulations to Poxy and geoff - good names for both too.

We have a our first, a boy, expected on May 11th.