Wee babbies

The reasons for my trip to Ireland were the birthday celebrations of my wee niece who was one year old on Monday. Altogether now, “Awwww…”

It’s events like this one that trigger a repeating debate between me and the missus; Do we want kids?

This time the answer was a simple ‘yes’. Little S is a perfect baby. She’s as cute as a button and just laughs all the time. She really is a perfect baby. We spent the whole time we were there just playing with her and thinking it was all fantastic.

But then we went to ‘Superquinn’ (Kinda like an Irish Asda) for food shopping and the place was full of Mums and Dads with babies. Please forgive me for saying this, but dammit there are a hell of a lot of ugly babies out there. I mean a hell of a lot.

There are bug-eyed babies, jug-eared babies, mad staring quiet babies, cry-babies, screaming-babies, unusually bald babies, lanky babies, freakishly tall babies and babies who weren’t really babies at all but were just insecure seven-year-olds with dummies.

I realised that my sister-in-law and her hubby had set the benchmark for babies impossibly high. The answer to the question ‘Do we want kids?’ has now been complicated by the possibility that we have an ugly baby who screams like a banshee.

I know that all babies are loved by their parents, who are blind to their faults, but dammit I know what an ugly baby looks like and I feel like I’d be able to spot one right away if he/she was living in my house.

So now I’m not sure again.

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Yay! My blog is still here!

Last week I posted a guest login and password to this blog and opened it up to random, anonymous drive-by bloggings. I’m quite pleased that it worked fairly well.

I posted the user name and password and then left for the airport. Whilst sitting in the car being driven I thought, “Hmm, I wonder if it’s actually possible to cause damage with that guest account?.. I guess you could post some HTML. Or maybe some PHP. Actually you could post PHP code and gain access to the entire web server… FUCK!”

Thankfully, no-one thought of that.

Also, no fifteen-year-olds posted the word ‘fuck’ five-hundred times in red capital letters to see if they could take up the whole page either, which was another fear.

Big thanks to all those guest-folk who posted and kept the place running, whoever you are.

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