I am glad to report that my knitting project has been finished and I will therefore be able to spend a bit more time in the teashop...
JM - sounds as though we've had more snow than that already!!! A lot of schools were shut for a day recently - and the snow has taken 9 days to go mainly - although ds was still managing to find a few to slide on during our walk earlier today, and that is 11 days on...
T42 - its nice to have something unusual - although ds's name is very traditional although, surprisingly enough, he was the only one with it at nursery, and now, he's the only one with it at school. And there are good family reasons for giving it to him... it was his great grandfather's (and his second name was/is his father's, grandfather's and greatgrandfather's....)
I did have a snigger (at a later date) at someone who, when asked what their baby daughter was called, told me "'Bow' - spelt Beau" I managed not to ask her whether she really wanted her daughter growing up handsome - but its not necessarily something I would want to put on a thread saying have you had a snigger....
MJ did a classic today - woke up at a reasonable time (hurrah!) - then misbehaved in church - to the extent that he wailed very audibly when I told him that he could no longer have the biscuit afterwards that he might have done if he'd behaved - then ran out along the pavement with a friend rather than waiting - so wailed all the way home in the car ( - less than 5 mins) then slammed the front door in my face so was taken up to his room where he failed to go to sleep. Quite good whilst out on the walk, then really annoying when trying to do Christmas cards - not doing what he'd been asked to do etc. We then had to take dh in to do some carol singing in town - ds fell asleep on the way, stayed asleep, I carried him out of the car, still asleep and managed to get some cushions flat on the floor with him still in my arms - he almost woke up when I put him down - and he managed to grab his elephant - then he slept until I woke him up for his supper and went straight down when he went to bed - he would have been so much better off if he had agreed to have a nap earlier on in the day!
I've got some bottles of Cava here - any one want some (I've chosen Cava so we can save some of the better stuff for slightly closer to the seasonal thing that is happening sometime in the future that I'm trying to forget as we've not remotely ready yet) - I'm certainly going to have a glass....