On 27/9/07 15:51, in article ,
"jane" wrote:

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:54:24 +0100, Sacha
wrote:


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~Perhaps the OP is, like me, a granny, who is to have babies staying in the
~house? Our house was taken over by the next generation's clobber! Most
~grannies will do anything for their grand children but might draw the line
~at breast feeding. ;-)) As to the fruit & veg bit both our grand children
~recommend HIPP organic!

ROTFL

Sadly not, but an older mummy to be who is expecting to place baby
with nursery at 4-5 months so she can go back to work, and so needs to
be able to provide them with bottles of milk, wherever it comes from
in the first place! But yes, will try free source first.

I think my daughter in law used bottles called Dr Brown's or something like
that and found they helped a lot when the baby was rather windy or colicky.
And those wonderful steam sterilisers! Why didn't we have those instead of
horrible smelly Milton!

My own mum is going to be a very old granny and can't wait (she never
thought she'd be one, but we surprised her.)

She's going to be over the moon - what a lovely piece of news that must have
been. My step-daughter didn't have her first child until she was 41 and she
gave us all - especially her father - a wonderful surprise. The grand
daughter lives very close to us and we see her often but both are the joy of
our lives.

Blinking allotment went west this year though, first to extreme
morning sickness and hospitalisation and then to me simply being
unable to bend! Having said that, a lot of allotment friends have been
using me to get rid of the usual courgette/bean surplus once I could
eat again, and picking my fruit bushes over for me while they were at
it. *bless*. (I also got my spuds and shallots in before getting too
bad, so it wasn't a dead loss.) If I had to pick a year to not do the
lottie, this was a good one to choose.

Ah well, now you know that babies take their own time and consider nobody's
convenience but their own - and that's before they're born! ;-)

Good job I have a lot of spare preserves from last year, and plenty of
frozen stuff. Baby will wean to homegrown organic stuff!

Lucky baby - it's off to a good start. Let us have the great news as soon
as you can!

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'