Yup, I’m still carting around this little Worzel inside me, and despite how much I’ve quacked on about hoping she’ll come a tad early, I’m now keeping my fingers crossed that she’ll hold off on arriving until after Monday. I have plans to go to the pools on Monday. The craving to submerge myself in water is stronger than my cravings for fruit and frozen ice. Of course, knowing my luck this will now work as reverse psychology and I’ll find the only pool I’ll get to splash about in on Monday is a birthing one!
Well, a pool’s a pool I guess. Except one will also be accompanied by contractions.
Had a cool day at Cheltenham beach on Monday, but this heat has now sapped away my will to do much else except to sit around and play Monopoly with Char. Now that the bedrooms are re-arranged and whatnot, I’ve burnt out like an old rock has-been and have now become rather sloth-like. Which is probably why The Worzel is now lying in a wonderful posterior position which strikes pain into my lower back each time she moves. It’s like she’s resting against a nerve. Hmm. Getting on my nerves already huh? *rolls eyes at pathetic wit*
In other news - and I’m surprised I haven’t let this cat out of the bag already - we have a name for the sproggin! After months of deliberating, we’ve collectively settled on a name which went straight to number one as soon as it made it’s debut on the charts.
Breaca.
There’s a double meaning to this one. Originally it was Brekka, which was J’s choice of a middle name (inspired by a speedway midget chassis). Then he bought me the last of Manda Scott’s ‘Boudica’ series and the name Breaca fell out of the page. Brekka. Breaca. Similar. Right? And according to Manda Scott at least, Breaca is a derivative of Boudica, whose name is in turn a derivative of the war goddess Boudig which relates in turn to the great goddess Briga (Bridget). Or something upon those lines. Celtic. Lovely. And not entirely in relation to the framework of a car.
And now, because I’ve never been so keen to flaunt myself about as I am now that I have a big fat pregnant belly, here’s the latest Buddah Belly update at 38 weeks…
