Harvey has landed
So, last Monday, right in the middle of University Challenge, it became apparent that our second child (sex then unknown) was announcing his/her intention to arrive a week early. After a certain amount of drama, including my forgetting how to drive a car and repeatedly stalling at traffic lights, and a record-breaking drive by my brilliant parents from Portsmouth to Frome to come and take care of number-one-son (Joe, 3), Helen delivered a little boy at 01:08 on Tuesday. We’re calling him Harvey.
Mum and number-two-son are now home and in fine fettle. I’m proud, happy and shell-shocked. Sleep is already nothing but a fond memory….
Welcome to Planet Earth, Harvey!

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August 23rd, 2007 at 10:13 am
Woo! Congratulations!
(I’m sure there’s a Facebook application somewhere here…. No, no, I really really didn’t say that!)
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 am
Congratulations!
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:51 am
Congratulations!
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:00 am
Thanks guys!
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:06 am
Congratulations!
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 am
Thanks Nicole!
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 am
yeeha! nice one. when mine arrives we can compare no-sleep induced hallucinations…
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:31 am
Yes - we can sit in the corner at the next el-Pub talking about environmentally-friendly bottom wipes rather than the usual tedious nonsense about Web 2.0….
Good luck with your impending
doomhappy arrival!August 23rd, 2007 at 11:45 am
Congratulations, and two pieces of gratuitious advice:
1. Have fun.
2. Ignore all advice you receive (unless you like the sound of it), and that includes 1 above.
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:56 am
Thanks Tom!
I’ll heed your advise. Which means I won’t.
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Congratulations! Harvey looks so cute….while he is asleep. Probably not so cute at 3.00am in the morning
I’m glad it all went well…..
All the best
Balviar
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Thanks Balviar!
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Congrats Paul
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Ta!
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Aww, he’s gorgeous Paul - congratulations. But it sounds like you need to get yourself a car with an automatic gearbox next time (just in case you go for a third!).
August 23rd, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Thanks Amanda! I think two might be enough for now….
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Congratulations Paul, wonderful news……….very pleased for you both !
August 24th, 2007 at 6:55 am
Cheers mate!
August 24th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Who needs sleep when the thing keeping you awake is so wonderful?
Congrats
August 24th, 2007 at 8:00 am
wonderful schmunderful…. I need SLEEP!!!

August 28th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Congratulations to both of you. He’s a gorgeous little chap.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Congrats Paul & Helen! When you’re back in work, just block out your calendar with ‘meetings’, bring a pillow and tuck up under your desk…
August 29th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Thanks Kara!
September 11th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
[...] A night spent in a fairly modern but spartan student university hall - all aluminium staircases and orange walls (Frederique of JISC described it as the ‘EasyJet’ of student acommodation). I kept waking up wondering why I hadn’t been woken up by Harvey…. [...]
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Just had to leave a comment LOL! But - he is lovely