blind panic and desperate tiredness.com

A mate, Tom, who is four months ahead of me (his daughter Katya Grace was born on 14 September), wrote:

"I did have a look at it [this blog] when you first mentioned it. I think I was the mint choc chip ice cream day. I think it is more of an expurgation than catharsis - an intellectual form of shouting it out of the window, telling your parents or blabbering to your mates after too many pints.

However a very useful and admirable device. I must say that I could do with some form of regular unloading called 'God I have got a lot on, it's really exciting but I alternate between blind panic and desperate tiredness.com.' I think it is called being alive, a by product of taking on responsibility but it does flag up the lack of support structures in our world for the average bloke who doesn't have mates or family nearby, doesn't play football or support West Ham - or is obsessed about fishing.

So, houses, wives, babies, businesses, ageing parents, occasionally difficult siblings, employees, accountants, middle aged spread and being ginger! Let's acknowledge ourselves for what fine fellows we are and commend ourselves for taking everything that Landmark had to offer and using to produce the most amazing lives possible.

Cheers - and I will read your blog regularly but only if I get a mention once a month. This could be the Bridget Jones of blokes!!!"

Thank you Tom. Does this count as your mention?

Can Mint Choc Chip be an inherited craving?

Last night's request: the tub of mint choc chip ice cream... I used to love it, too!

Description
Dairy mint & chocolate flavoured ice creams rippled with chocolate sauce and topped with dark chocolate flakes.

Suitable for vegetarians.
Ingredients
Partially Reconstituted Skimmed Milk, Chocolate Sauce (12%) (Water, Sugar, Plain Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin), Whipping Cream, Partially Invert Refiners Syrup, Skimmed Sweetened Condensed Milk, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Thickener: Modified Waxy Maize Starch; Salt), Sugar, Butter Oil, Glucose Syrup, Double Cream, Plain Chocolate Shavings (2%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Butter Oil, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin; Flavour), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Whey Powder, Plain Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin), Emulsifier: Mono- and Di- Glycerides of Fatty Acids, Stabilisers: Carob Gum, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Natural Vanilla Extract, Colour: Copper Chlorophylin, Natural Peppermint Oil.

Cravings - mint choc chip ice-cream

Now here's a perfectly good craving for you: mint choc chip ice-cream.

This was at about mid-night last night, and the good news is that she knows that by the time I have actually got anything she happens to crave, she will probably have gone off it anyway, with the result that I haven't (so far) had to go chasing around south London looking for strange foods. To-date I think the list has been pizza, chips, oranges, big Macs and chicken (she's vegetarian). The degree of difficulty depends only on the timing!

More than anything else, though, she has been anti-vegetables, switching from a very healthy organic veggie diet to coke, crisps, chocs - you name it.

It must be a boy.

PS Still can't quite come to terms with the scan pics being of *our* baby.