1. "Do you want a glass of water?" asks one of the other mothers at toddler group while I am bubbing Bettany. "I know how it is, you get halfway through and the dry horrors strike."
2. The intense but calm concentration and grim determination on Alec's face and in his body language as we race from toddler group to home, where the potty is (he did make it and was very pleased with himself).
3. I've been avoiding looking at the two full airers in the kitchen. To work through them both with Nick.
Early, arrival and goat curry.
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