Ingrid slept until 7 this morning again! Not without waking a few times during the night, but I’d rather wake a few times during the night than get up at 5.30 in the morning.

Today was a very very hot day so we went out looking for fresh air. We cycled to Victoria Park, had ice cream, played in the grass, then walked along Regent’s Canal with Ingrid sleeping on my back, and then cycled home again. Very relaxing, with the wind whispering in the trees, a jazz band playing in one of the green spots along the canal, and a sleeping baby on my back.

(The picture is from two weeks ago when we cycled to Tate Modern and saw a Dali exhibition – Ingrid was NOT wearing all of that in today’s heat.)

You can now see photos by the official photographer of the London Sling Show that we attended last weekend.

We slept past 7 o’clock, which was a total novelty for me. First Ingrid half-woke just before 5, but just as I was steeling myself for what looked like the earliest-ever wake-up, she grunted a bit, turned around and went back to sleep. Then she woke again shortly after 6. (This time I was quite pleased when I saw what time it was.) She was starting to crawl around so I lifted her over to our bed to see if I could coax her to lie still and cuddle for a few minutes, giving me time to wake up slowly. And we both went right back to sleep again. The next time I opened my eyes I jumped out of bed because I was about to be late for work!

But I made up the time and wasn’t too late after all. I aim to be there by 8. At 8 today I was just passing St. Paul’s cathedral, so I was just a few minutes behind schedule. But this meant that I got to hear the bells of St. Paul’s, with absolutely perfect timing. The first of the four lighter chimes started just as I reached the easternmost end of the cathedral, and I was right beside the bell towers for the eight deep ones. There was hardly any traffic noise, either. A really nice start for the day.