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Anyone we've spoken to recently will have heard us agonising about buying a pram/pushchair and our complete inability to make a decision. But we finally bit the bullet and we're very happy with our Pramette which arrived a few days ago. Now all we need is a baby! And either Debbie has eaten too many pies or we won't have too long to wait!

Victory!

Victory for Chedham's Yard in the final of the BBC's Restoration programme on Sunday night. This means that the people of Wellesbourne could have £millions to spend on redeveloping this fascinating series of 19th century workshops as a working museum. We were very pleased to see Chedham's Yard had won and we look forward to going back there in hopefully a couple of years time to see the restoration completed!

An Indian Summer

A gloriously sunny Sunday afternoon found us at Stoneleigh Abbey, the model for the house that Fanny Price visited in Mansfield Park(see Chapters 8-10 for Austen's description of the house). We went on a Jane Austen tour, following in her footsteps on a tour around the house. Apparently you can buy apartments in parts of the house - probably slightly out of our price range!

Life Begins At...

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated an important birthday for Debbie's dad - but we wouldn't be so mean as to say which one! We spent a lovely family day together, including a 'posh' meal at the Madeley Court Hotel in Telford and a potter around Much Wenlock (or Much Wedlock as it has become fondly known between us...), and rounded the day off with a nice birthday tea, complete with champagne and strawberries. We decided it would be a fire risk to put the right number of candles on the cake, but Dad seemed to enjoy his birthday cake anyway!