Make Way for Noddy

So we're now just four weeks away from delivery day. Vic gave up work last week and has been in nesting mode for some time: We've been rushing around turning our house into a proper home. New bathrooms, new carpets, new kitchen floor, and the dreaded Clown Room has been transformed into a tranquil nursery for Noddy.

As part of the acclimatisation process, we asked India whether we were having a boy or a girl and what India would like to call him or her.

She has decided that she is having a baby sister who is called Noddy. Despite telling her otherwise, she is convinced that when we visit Mummy in hospital there will be a baby who looks like the character Noddy, complete with blue hat and jingly bell. Whenever we use an alternative name for the bump -- which is rarely -- India gets most upset.

As mentioned, Noddy's room has been stripped out and redecorated. The clown wallpaper and raspberry carpet has been replaced by a new wooden floor and Kelp paint. If you take a look at the Dulux Editions colour charts you will see that Kelp is a beautiful and serene sea-green. Ideal for a tranquil nursery, and sufficiently neutral to suit either a baby girl or boy.

The paint went on as a nasty sage green colour and then dried to a colour that can only be described as

Baby Boy Powder Blue

...with no hint of green in it at all.

With no time to repaint it -- I've got bags of other jobs to do still -- Noddy, whether a boy or girl, will have to live with it.

Read into that as you will.