A very windy day, it’s been hard to walk straight at times. I’ve been reading in the news now about trees falling and roofs being blown off. We’ve had nothing so severe here. Well, the roof of the bird feeder did blow off, twice, and Adrian was woken from one of his naps when he got a massive blast of wind straight in his face.

I’ve started weaning Adrian off the dummy, for his night sleep at least. Some nights it’s not a problem but other times he wakes every 40 minutes because he loses the damn dummy. So now I’m putting an end to that. Today was the second evening without a dummy and it is working pretty well. He responds well to Tracy Hogg’s “shush pat” approach, and to lullabies. He was most angry with me this evening when I turned him onto his tummy after nursing and then did not give him his dummy – he realized straight away that I was going to repeat yesterday’s routine. But 6 minutes later he was fast asleep, and he hasn’t woken in the two and a half hours since then.