The Longest Journey Begins With The First Step.........

Today, Friday the 12th of Jan was an all right day despite the gloomy January weather and the thought that winter still had a long way to run. The reason for my upbeat mood was the visit of my baby sister who, despite her mature status, is and always will be, my baby sister. My sister's main reason for visiting us wasn't to see me or my wife; it was first and foremost to see her grand niece, our granddaughter. Our daughter's house is only a short distance from where we live so we all trooped round and my sister was introduced to her nine week old grand niece. There then followed much cooing and clucking and other such baby noises, a lot of them coming from me it must be said, together with a sort of baby fashion show where tiny items of clothing, footwear, gloves, etc were shown and discussed which I took very little part in. After we had all admired and annoyed the baby sufficiently to make her a little fractious we handed her back (as grandparents and great aunts are wont to do) to her mother and left to have a meal at the local Italian bistro.

My human contacts today included my baby sister, my youngest daughter and my granddaughter as well as my wife and my brother-in-law. My deed was to clean the house prior to the arrival of our guests  and my thoughts were on family matters.