Ghostly Mountain Retreat

We're up in Carlisle at the Inlaws. I'm revising for my retake exam next week at the usual mountain retreat. Keeping the dog away from India has been distracting: he's bemused and bewildered by the baby. He doesn't know whether to protect her or eat her...

India's been "talking" over the last couple of weeks. She'll mimic your grunts and goo-goos. Then do some of her own. It's very cool.

Weirdly though, when left on her own for a few minutes in the Inlaws old house, she suddenly bursts into mucho excited talking.

To thin air.

Like there's a ghost.

Then when you reappear, she quietens down.

Even the suggestion that India might be seeing dead people -- and many so-called experts reckon children and animals can sense ghosts and spirits -- freaks Vic out.

Its behind you.