After a 72hr induction which at times had the character of a siege, @Glitter_brawl today gave birth to our daughter Thalassa. Named after the primordial titaness of the ocean, mother of all sea creatures, she seems calm, undaunted, and hungry. I love her and her mother very much. 
(Interestingly, it seems my whale tweets are doing the rounds again. We found out about Tallie just after those were posted, and so a little too late for mum to have known about her, but there's a lovely symettry to it all)
(Fun fact: 'Thalassa' was also the cry of elation from the 10,000 Greeks as they finally caught sight of the sea in Xenophon's Anabasis. An Anabasis is the opposite of a Katabasis, which is what I was chatting about with the whale stuff. Man I am too tired for this)
Also HOLY SHIT I've nipped home to shower and a thunderstorm just kicked off. Erm, @Glitter_brawl - you know I said Thalassa was technically the mother of storms? We... ah... we might have a Thor situation on our hands.
Woah, bonkers levels of incredibly kind replies to this - I have no hope in hell of finding the energy to reply to much anytime soon, so let me just thank all of you really sincerely for your support x
