The Dump is:
For posting comments that don’t get up at the Drum, and for having a pleasant, mirthful or enlightening off-topic discussion.
It’s not for personal abuse of other commenters.
Please do that somewhere else if you must.
Play nicely or piss off.
However, why doesn’t a poster add a link for us to read and comment on here, much quicker. Maybe we can do a bit more bagging here, not that I speak for the moderators, yet.
NB: Being tiresome and boring, racist, sexist or just plain creepy is not playing nicely.
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The Pig’s Arms exists because a dozen or so years ago our other favourite playpen – the ABC’s Unleashed blogsphere started to go off. Like a sack of prawn heads in the sun. Something had to be done.
Moderation was taking forever. Comments seemed to be rejected randomly – outrageous ones appeared and reasoned ones were pinged. When they released the Drum / Unleashed ….. things actually got worse !
So many pieces from professional writers appear with no obvious merit. And the moderation has become, to put it frankly, appalling.
As a former contributor and a commenter, I was deeply disappointed at the plummeting quality from our pre-eminent media empire. And I resented so many challenging or dare I say, witty or funny posts in which we’ve invested seconds of our precious time – getting the chop.
So here, for all our benefit – is an open slather blog. Copy and paste your best rejected comments here for posterity. Does not matter whether you’re posting on the Guardian, First Dog on the Moon or wherever else.
And sprinkle pointers to the Pig’s Arms amongst your comments. Let’s try to rescue some of the old faithful.
Cheers,
Emm.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Hubby has cancer all clear. A big yay time in our household.
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Excellent news. Give the young fella our regards and a pink drink.
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I’ll second that ! Top news!!!
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Still on PEG feeding. I did offer him a thick chardy but he’s not game yet. He’s just having orally things like a little custard, yogurt, soft scrambled egg and thick juice. Could be another six months of this. Anyway, I made up for it !
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Fabulous news
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Great to hear Viv.
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Guardian pick on Jericho’s blog. First time. 🙂
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Saw that. Well done Ace.
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Second grand daughter arrived this afternoon – bang on time. All well.
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All the very best, Nan 😊
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I’m Grandma. The mother of the father is the Nan. Baby is 4.46 kg and 54 cm long.
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Sorry Grandma. Question: are there rules about our titles as grandparents ? I chose Pop because my grandfather was called Pop Jones.
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No rules. We were asked what we’d prefer to be called. No Nans in my family, just Grandma, so Grandma clicked with me. Also made it easier to know who was being talked about and of course hubby is Grandpa. Certainly no lightweight.
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4.46 kilos – a Bonny young lass
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That’s a great lump of a kid….can she still walk?
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Lovely news viv, all the best to the family
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Great news Viv.
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Apparently Leigh Matthews reckons Andrew Gaff will be “Mortally wounded for the rest of his life”.
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That’s a big wow.
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You might like this one as well.
It’s not easy. That’s why it’s hard.
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Do you ’member when Fraser dropped his “Life wasn’t meant to be easy”? And the retort was that “it wasn’t meant to be fucking impossible either” ?
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Cripes ! You could have knocked me over with a boulder.
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You’ve got to watch out for those mortal wounds. They’re a real killer.
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Love a good sporting tautology.
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Rex Mossop is clearly not dead 😊
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I’m on a roll here.
Anything we assume at this point is an assumption.
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Thought for the day:
Rooms with broken air conditioners are hot.
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A revelation.
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Hubby has improved a lot. Things are more normal. 3 feeds a day.
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Excellent news.
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Found recently in a motel room:
For the guests:
Sham poo
Shower poo.
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But no I Poo ?
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Good news fopr the weekend
Man shot with arrow in head feels great after it’s removed.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-18/good-behaviour-bond-for-bega-school-stairwell-assault/10008716
Sorry, not good enough. The message needed to be sent and yet a limp lettuce approach means more of the same will occur throughout schools in Australia.
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I thought it a bit light on. A former student at at Busselton Senior High ended up with a 4 month custodial sentence. The victim it turned out had bullied the perpetrator for a year before the perpetrator had had enough and laid into the victim but once on the ground went for the kill and started stomping on them. I think the sentence is appropriate in this case. what happened to the victim probably got off to bully again.
As for the Bega,student. I suspect expelled and needs to go to another high school in another town. The victim will wear what happened for the rest of their lives.
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Might add the the local member Clown Constance will make noise and do nothing. The AVO won’t go away either.
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Thought for the weekend
Ancient gravity was much weaker.
Gravity had to be weaker to make the dinosaurs nimble
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I liked your comment over at the G about the LNP not knowing the difference between their arses and their faces.
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Thanks old fella, of course had that been on someone else’s opinion it would have been pulled.
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Did Nigel Evans get a look in ? I’ve been flat out Nurse Barbara – ing. Home from the PEG on Saturday and also got hernia fixed. Back to 6 feeds a day and constant to and fro. He’s not up and about yet. I had a few comments on Jericho’s piece and saw Algy popping up too.
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Got a few in, not much open this weekend to comment on and they want you to subscribe. Yes saw you an Algy on Jericho’s piece.
6 feeds a day sounds a lot and are they gravity or pump?
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Gravity – slowly till gets used to straight into stomach. It’s a pain really.
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They all flow at different rates as well which doesn’t help, of course everyone wants the Goldilocks rate.
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How high it’s held determines the flow rate. He’s got to get used to it and all being well will allow it to go faster. Must avoid vomiting and possible aspiration.
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Not much of a chance nowadays. Only one pulled too. Silly moron thought they’d troll. My favourite was the arse comment and it not being pulled down.
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My phone is now working. The saga continued. Today the technician arrived at 8.10 am and left 11.30 am. Finding the fault in the line – down the road. Finally hooked us up to new line (there are spares galore). Yay.
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Great! We had no phone for over a week some years back because a technician had disconnected all of the lines at the street pillar. An older bloke picking up some extra shifts on the weekend fixed it in about an hour. Of course the f…wits in line faults couldn’t work out that a few hundred phones had faults within one street!
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Been without phone for a week on previous occasions too. Ever since Telstra sold off getting things fixed has turn to shit. The call centre in India is basically useless for reporting faults. They don’t have enough staff. The guy who fixed it yesterday was from Sydney (Riverstone, or somewhere way out) seconded here for 4 weeks. The lines are falling apart but in this case just mine.
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My eldest just went to India to do some teaching in his company’s call centre. He said it was a complete waste of time. The staff didn’t have the most fundamental idea about what they were doing. He sat in on some calls. processes like resetting a password, which only require a few key strokes took about twenty minutes. Unfortunately all call centres are overseas, so what do we expect?
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Not to bother calling ?
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Very interesting. The fault number is the same whether you have already reported it, have further probs and so on. They never sent me the priority customer form either (twice asked for). Talk to a computer to begin with, get told to go on line and trouble shoot and blah blah. No trouble shooting needed. Have to go through same old crap.
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Yes, I’m coming out. At the Guardian I’m Nigel Evans. They kept kicking me off but Nigel is a good boy and generally stays out of trouble.
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Is Nigel Father O’Ways’ acolyte?
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I might have just picked that up I’f I’d looked. A cryptic reply
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Well Father O’Way has retired an Gordon O’Donnell couldn’t stop himself from calling some posters fucking idiots even though they were fucking idiots. So they banned Gordon. For a while I just used to read the comments but remembered Nigel from a Monty Python sketch, Nigel Farquhar Evans.
I’ve been meaning to fess up for a while and then when Algy replied a couple of times I thought it was time.
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I’ve only been put in the naughty corner once there. The royal wedding, the poms seem a bit touchy about comments of the royal family, inbreeding and questionable parentage. Lasted 24 hours. Often moded on Katherine’s little Waffle brown nose articles.
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I think I’ve managed three wipeouts. No idea why.
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Most on Murphy’s I get moderated often you wonder why
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YAY I’ll keep an eye out for Nigel Evans. This is exciting.
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Something for your consideration where you buy tou plumbing needs
Toto Neorest 500 Toilet
See our display of Operating Toto Toilets
Try before you buy!
Or more sage advice
warning label on a PVC airbed
DO NOT EAT
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That sounds like good advice. 🙂
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Thought for the day:
It left a sour taste in the client’s eye.
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Yes, that described yesterday well. No phone for 8, now 9 days. Cancelled appointments and new phone did not fix it. Techy rings at 8.30 am and says will check the exchange and I now have a constant hum and no phone but the internet is working (adsl) BUT – he can’t come to find problem because it is raining and will come when it stops, maybe. Just before noon the power line people come to check and say a couple of trees need lopping and my mobile rings while I am out front. Missed call from Techy. Not happy There’s more but I don’t want to bore people.
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Ah the joy of telecommunications.
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Hows Mr Nurse Barbara going Viv? Hope all is well.
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Still full on. Back to hospital on Tuesday to get PEG installed. Still hoping to eat normally but we’ve been set back nearly two months. He’s regained 2.5 kgs and the other day took the rid-on mower for a spin. He’s looking forward to Tour de France. I’m pretty good but have to admit to being a bit sick of the current routine. I barely have time to get to town to replenish the grog supplies and check out fish shop – do that and fill up with petrol and it’s time to be back home. I should have shares in our local chemist.
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PEG’s are better than Naso-Gastric plus you can change them yourself at home. If they block try Coke a Cola. When I used to do PEG feeds for kids the parents told me that trick, talk to your district nurse first of course as I haven’t nursed for 5 years or so.
Good luck with everything and make sure Nurse Barbara gets a top up from time to time. We must look after the care givers.
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I don’t expect hubby to manage it himself. We’ll see how it goes. We stuck with the nasal thing because hoped to pass the second x-ray video swallow. Didn’t but not long after he fell in a heap with this double ulcer bleeding. He nearly carked it. We’d been to the doc only days before he collapsed. He’ll be in hospital for three days and they’ll make sure we are comfortable and adept at the PEG feed. I’ve been doing the feeding since Easter Friday. We had to wait for his stomach to heal before the PEG could be done as well as get things back to ‘normal’. I was doing 6 small feeds a day and gradually increasing quantity and decreasing feeds. Lot of meds to administer (crush to powder and get in via syringe). I think I could write a how to – not all nurses have a clue about this and hospital docs are a bit ordinary. We’ve opted to stick with the second surgeon to do the PEG – he seemed to be very much in tune with my thinking.
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PS: hubby is 79, I’m 68.
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Poor Katharine Murphy doesn’t like criticism of her kill Bill campaign and often moderated.
This one hasn’t been pulled yet though:
preeves456 22m ago
10
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Katharine Murphy:
1. Dinner with Mal and Lucy.
2. Lame excuses for not exposing toe-rag Barnaby.
3. Dopey beat-ups about non-existent Labor leadership challenges.
4. Regards climate change as a scoop.
100% rolled-gold Fuckwit.
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Pulled after two hours
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I noticed quite a few complaints about moderation. I didn’t see that one – it was good.
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Some things to consider.
At the local restaurant.
Dinner short course:
E.coli Innovations
Tuesdays 6:15PM to 9:00PM
Or with communications
We have been experiencing major I.T. problems over the weekend – please bare with us as we rectify this next week
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Should have said “rectalfy”
In our final undergrad year at the uni farms we held a barbigrog which had a rodeo (no animals except the students) and a revue.
I rewrote the words of “California here we come” commenting on college food – Salmonella here we come. We were all wearing sack cloth and ashes and throughout the song the chorus members died one by one until just one of us was left standing to finish the song.
It was hilarious for everyone except the kitchen people 😊
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Hubby is mending well. We are back on track after huge set back.
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Excellent news ! All power to your arms.
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I also had another win. Got phone/internet fixed. Copper wires falling apart. I should be right for some time now. Last few months been very frustrating. Call to report problem and the line suddenly works!
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It’s a bit like leaning an axe against a fruit tree that’s not bearing well. 😊
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Fantastic news Viv.
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Great news Mrs Olive. Send the dear boy our regards. It’s a shit getting sick, but sometimes, but not always, better than the alternative. Hope you are well in yourself.
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Been busy this week. I’m pleased to hear of the mending.. Good news
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Thought for the day.
Village People upset at YMCA plans.
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Another thought for the day
Its a shock because nobody expected it.
Or sage advice.
Please do not drop an air conditioner out a window.
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Thanks, Algy, I haven’t done this for weeks.
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It’s damned fine about little piglet Jack and the Emmlet. Viv has our thoughts and her Hub for especially being tied up when he was in no shape to protest. So the news is about the good, the tough and the ugly although Jack is nowhere near as bad as his grandfather said he was. Wow, grandfather. Note to self. Show the old coot some respect. Grandfather Boss I ought to say aka the Pub pig.
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Hubby coming home today.
Love the latest photo of Jack.
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So sorry to hear about Hubby being so crook, Viv.
Glad, you had some time off nursing duties.
Love from both H and me.
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Thank you so much Gerard. He is now home (as of two hours ago) and Lola is very happy. How is Helvi faring – have you fattened her up to her usual gorgeous self?
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Also having internet problems.
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Hubby has had a pretty rough trot the last two weeks. Long story short – he got a bleeding duodenal ulcer and gall. First it was clipped then another emergency trip when it all went pear shaped and he had major surgery. He’s got a lot of tubes going in and out of him but is making good recovery. In hospital for a while. Major setback of course.
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Sorry to hear that viv, hope he gets over all of this and back to good health soon. You make sure you look after yourself too. Keep safe and well.
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Thanks Algy – it’s been months waiting to get back to normal. The latest problem may have been result of no immune system and probably been there some time before it manifested itself in a very nasty way. I’m hanging in there okay.
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Sending our love, Viv. All the best to you both.
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No good Viv. Hope all goes well so Mr Nurse Barbara is back on deck soon.
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Nurse Barbara getting way too much practice. Been full on. Thanks Mark.
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Sounds like a real pain in the guts. It’s a wonder you haven’t developed an ulcer yerself, Dear Viv. Yep, this nursing is over rated.
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Yes, finally got some time off while he’s in hospital. No break for months. I slept in today, just up. Lovely.
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Congratulation, Emm. Nothing like nestling on or against the (milk) bar. A good start. I remember it well.
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Thank you Gez. Indeed !
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Glad to hear the news of a male child in the Jay household, and that mother and baby are okay. A worrying time, this childbirth business. I qlways think that newborns look like a bunch of potatoes stuck together but Jack looks alright!
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Thanks Big. I have an update of the little tiger with his “Sorry/Not Sorry for keeping you up all night “ look. Gained 200 grams in first 5 days. There was speculation that Hack’s Dad was an albino Maori when he was born but the squished nose look went away pretty quickly.
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Good to hear that the little bloke is thriving!
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Well congratulations to Emmlet 1 Emm, terrific news. Oh and to you and FM as well. Good to here they are all well. Calls for a round of the finest pink drinks.
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Que?
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He’s a Grandfather, Mark.
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Now I get it, congratulations all round.
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Yay – what a beauty – a boy looking like he was a perfect fit for the name Jack. Congratulations to the new grandparents.
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Thanks Viv. This is a new role for both of us, but we really like the look of the part 🙂 So happy for Emmlet 1 🙂
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Many thanks Algy. We’ve certainly been pretty busy – tomorrow I’ll post Jack’s follow-up photo !
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