Wed Sept 23 - Katie Would Have Been Ten Today, Musical Geography, Poorly Han Recovers and Back2 Work.

Today would have been, if she's lived, our daughter Katie's tenth birthday. Unfortunately, instead, she was born dead on this day in 1999 after managing to get her umbilical cord wrapped round her neck five days before. Silly girl she was due to be born at the end of the month. Unbelievable really, due date 30/9/99 strangled 18/9/99. So close yet so far. We all went to the cemetery to place flowers on her grave when he kids got home from school. It's become a tradition, every birthday and Xmas eve the kids cover her grave in leaves to keep her warm, that's because when he was tiny Nat was worried that she's be cold and thought putting leaves on top of her would help keep her warm. The kids section where she's buried was filled a few years ago, the babies are now buried in another area, and so this area is getting very overgrown. We really must get her a headstone and include Hans name on it. I often wonder what Caitlin Rebbecca Anwin Jones would have turned out like if she'd lived? It's weird, most of the time it seems like this happened a life time ago in a dimly remembered past but if I specifically think about the day we found out Sunday 19th and the day she was born Thurs 23/9 and the following 24 hours we kept her for it's as if every single detail is permanently etched into my brain in high definition. Isn't that odd?

On a happier note, when we got home it was time to help Nat with his first geography home work; which was to write a song about where he lives. As of the time of writing we've come up with the following sung to the tune of Narwhals:-

Nathaniel Nathaniel living on the Kingsway
In the town of Braunstone being pretty awesome,
Nathaniel Nathaniel living on the Kingsway
Very green and very wide, fifty metres side to side.

Fosse Park is near by just up the Narbro Road
to Borders Dad and I Go....................................
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Back to work tonight and I feel like sh*t, I think I've got whatever it is that Han has had. The aforementioned, on the other hand, appears fully recovered and is off to school in the morning; where's the justice I ask you?

Spent the night doing EA which wasn't too busy until Hasmukh, who was on manuals, had to leave because his Dad had been rushed into hospital. I took over manuals as well and ensured that both were completed before I finished at 7:30on Thursday morning.