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[Flosshilde]

Neither do I, as long as it's all done in private & not announced to the world as if it's a world-shattering event.

[pastoralguy]

It's a baby. Babies are nice. I don't feel sour about anybody's baby.

Try sitting in front of one that's howling its lungs out on a flight from New York to London!

[pastoralguy]

Neither do I, as long as it's all done in private & not announced to the world as if it's a world-shattering event.

Ron Shafferty seems VERY excited about the babies arrival.

[ahinton]

Ron Shafferty seems VERY excited about the babies arrival.

What? There's going to be more than one?!

[mercia]

will Peter Maxwell have to compose a ditty ?

[Mary Chambers]

Try sitting in front of one that's howling its lungs out on a flight from New York to London!

That's nothing. I took my own howling babies on flights from London to Sydney when it took 36 hours, and believe me it's much worse for the parents than it is for fellow passengers.

[Sir Velo]

It's a baby. Babies are nice.

Problem is babies invariably turn into grown ups. :winkeye:

[ahinton]

will Peter Maxwell have to compose a ditty ?

and if he will not, will it be a pity?

[Sir Velo]

That's nothing. I took my own howling babies on flights from London to Sydney when it took 36 hours, and believe me it's much worse for the parents than it is for fellow passengers.

I wouldn't be so sure.

[Flosshilde]

What? There's goig to be more than one?!

There has to be a spare, & if it can be produced at the same time (well, not exactly the same time, there would have to be a few minutes between them) as the heir, all well & good. It means we don't have to go through this again in a couple of years' time.

[Flosshilde]

Ron Shafferty seems VERY excited about the babies arrival.

Much as I like his programme, even I have to admit that he gets excited about most things.

[pastoralguy]

That's nothing. I took my own howling babies on flights from London to Sydney when it took 36 hours, and believe me it's much worse for the parents than

it is for fellow passengers.[/QUOTE]

My mother tells me I vomited over a BOAC stewardess when I was 18 months! Alas, I have no memory of this momentous event...

[Flosshilde]

That's nothing. I took my own howling babies on flights from London to Sydney when it took 36 hours, and believe me it's much worse for the parents than it is for fellow passengers.

Whenever I encounter screaming babies on a flight (even a short one) I always think that it's a form of selfishness, not to mention child abuse, to subject them to the flight. I find the effects on my ears (from air pressure changes, not the screaming babies) painful; they must find it agony, without understanding why they are experiencing it. Surely parents can postpone their holidays abroad for a few years?

[Beef Oven]

My OP was a happy one! No smileys in this precinct of the Forum though! *winkeye, hug, smiley, big grin etc etc*

Agreed! As the world holds its breath, for news of the birth!

[ahinton]

There has to be a spare

You mean like one in a car to make the vehicle legal on the road?

& if it can be produced at the same time (well, not exactly the same time, there would have to be a few minutes between them) as the heir, all well & good. It means we don't have to go through this again in a couple of years' time.

"Heir today, heir again today", as in? Or as in "the heir is running"?

By the way, as the sex of the royal sprog has yet to be publicly declared and one might therefore suppose that the possibility twins is not entirely ruled out - and as this is the couple's first addition to their family - would twins constitute a double first at Cambridge?