As a few of you know, I've been waiting for ages for this gorgeous thing. Three pick ups, oversized bridge, and a wicked flamejob that goes all the way up the fretboard. Sounds lovely and rich. A splendid replacement for the Hohner I've been playing for the last 12 years. I love it so much, I've named it Alice, after my daughter.
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She's going to find it difficult to play a bar chord, poor dear...
Fortunately that's a bass, so she won't have to.
I'm sure Octavia will give a few more details about the delivery, Herbs, but there weren't any complications. Words like 'difficult' or 'easy' don't seem quite appropriate, but nothing went wrong - the whole thing was handled in the midwife led unit, so there were no doctors involved at any point. Just me, the midwife and Octavia. Gas and air throughout, except for a couple of bad moments where the mouthpiece dropped in the pool and stopped working, and that was that. I think the whole process took about ten/ eleven hours (from about eight in the evening, til 5.45 in the morning) which we're told is quite short for a first go. Octavia's recovering amazingly well after her heroic performance in the delivery room.
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This is wonderful news. As usual, I am completely at a loss for anything witty to say and can only scribble, "Happy Birthday Alice" on the card in smudged biro, but my heart is filled with joy.
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YOU'RE WINNER! Congratulations to you all. I'm really sort of struggling to say anything that doesn't sound like the usual fanfare, but I'm really really pleased for you both. I think you'll be excellent parents except for the fact Thorn's a bit noncey, but I reckon it'll be OK.
Here's one where you can actually see her little face. We had to turn the flash off on the camera because even when she had her eyes shut it made her spasm like a mogwai.
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hang on, Thorns new-born baby daughter looks exactly like my new-born baby daughter... eXCEPT SHE'S WHITE OF COURSE, BUT APART FROM THAT, COO, DON'T BABY GIRLS LOOK SIMILAR. i BET THEY USED TO GET THEM MIXED UP ALL THE TIME IN THE OLD DAYS, WHEN THEY HAD THEM ALL LINED UP IN CRIBS IN A ROOM WITH hATTIE jACQUES TRYING TO KEEP THEM ALL QUIET AND THERE WEREN'T AS many blacks about.
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My idea was to print this thread off and maybe give a copy to Alice on her 18th Birthday, given that this site was how Octavia and I met. But now with that caps lock post, how can I? It's awful. It's just all too awful.
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