She coped beautifully, eco, as I left her at home! Glad I did, too, since we didn't make it back until 11pm. It just seemed like it would be a pointless long journey for her, and it's not like she ever met either of her greatgrandparents - one died in 2010, and the other had totally lost the plot so there didn't seem much point introducing them.
As for how the Lakes are, I dunno really, we weren't there for sightseeing. I'm told the one lake we drove past was Derwent Water, and we scattered the ashes in a stream a few miles up the road from... Rosthwaite? Something like that, anyway. Very pretty place, if a bit rugged and vertical for my liking. And it was nice to see fields of sheep separated by walls for a change, rather than crop fields separated by hedges.
vj I will give cotton wool and baby lotion a try, mainly because I've had a bottle of baby lotion for the past year and haven't found a use for it yet. If you're a pregnant smoker they send someone round to harass you with a carbon monoxide detector on a regular basis, but they also bribe you with Johnson's baby products. We still have the shampoo too; DD has so little hair we'll probably still be on the same bottle when she's a year old.
Period turned up here yesterday too - two days late and ten minutes after I'd peed on a stick. Timing!
I sort of feel like I should be defending my decision to feed my baby with a spoon. But it does say spoons are okay in the NHS leaflet! And if I hold the spoon near her face, she grabs my hand, opens her mouth, and guides the spoon in, which still sounds pretty baby-led to me.