OK,
so a few things have happened since my last post (about reading
serialised novels
way back in January. Ahem). Probably the most significant of
these is that I had a baby, though we also moved house, and Liars' League got mentioned in the Guardian's
Top
10 Great Storytelling Nights
and won a Saboteur Award for Best
Regular Spoken Word Event. Don't ask me to sort these in order of
importance because someone's going to get hurt.
Seriously
though, I really did have a baby. (His eyes don't always look like that).
I
was going to blog about the pregnancy – in fact I wrote all the
posts – but then I got superstitious and didn't even want to talk
about it until it was a done deal and the baby was safely out. He's
now just over seven months old and is called Theo.
I submit that just like everyone else's firstborn, he's the most
attractive, intelligent, talented etc. child in the world and will
surely end up running it. (Come on, he's cute).
Naturally
I take every opportunity I can to show him off to admiring strangers,
which is why this afternoon we found ourselves in an office in the
Ben Pimlott Building, home
of the
Goldsmiths
College Infant Lab.
Although
with a name like that it sounds like it should be growing foetuses in
bottles a la Brave
New World, it's actually where they study child development, and
Theo was there to take
part in an experiment on Visual/Tactile
Attention in babies.
