Yes, it’s the first serious snow of the winter of 2006-07. It started snowing at some point in the early hours of this morning and has dumped around 3 inches on us. As I write (11:36) it is still snowing. We can’t get up the lane, so we’re here, stuck, until the weather changes.

After the dog had been out for her morning inspection of the estate, she came in covered in snow.

Snow piled up on Jake’s little car.

It’s nothing by North American or Scandinavian standards, but it’s our very own!

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After a long and exhausting labour, our son Tom and daughter-in-law Vicky’s baby, a girl, was born in hospital last night by forceps delivery.

First picture of Olive Maya (or possibly Maya Olive) Leith, taken moments after the birth on Tom’s mobile phone.

Vicky had arranged a home birth, so a forceps delivery in hospital will not have been at all to her liking. However, we’re happy to say that the baby is fine. Vicky’s still in hospital. Tom has gone home and crashed out, so we’ve no direct information - all of this has come from our other daughter-in-law, Charlie. This means that we still lack vital information, such as the weight of the baby.

We’re looking forward to meeting our fourth grandchild, but we’ll have to wait a few days.

10:18
Erica and I have just talked to Tom. Vicky started her contractions on Monday and the baby wasn’t born until 23.15 last night. Anyway, the baby (7lbs 5oz) is fine and Vicky is recovering in hospital. She’ll be out later on today. Tom was full of praise

Tom and Vicky deliberately did not ask what the baby’s sex was during Vicky’s pregnancy, so didn’t find this out until the birth. Tom says he had had a dream that they were going to have a girl; and he had another dream that she’d be called Olive. So they’re “road testing” the name Olive right now.

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