I clearly spoke too soon when I said Ros was getting over her cold, as I promptly caught it. It's been well over 30°C for much of the past couple of weeks, which is not an ideal temperature to do anything much, less still when you have a cold. Anyway, that's my excuse for no blogging. Turns out that now I look back, we haven't even taken many photos of Jessica. Poor show, isn't it?

Anyway, here's a new one. Whilst it's been hot, Jess has been distinctly stroppy (well, I guess it's fair enough since she can't fix herself an iced tea). We're all glad it's back in the twenties again. Now that we've been cooling off a bit this week, her repertoire of noises has changed. The coos have mutated into little squeals of delight which sound very silly, and make us laugh. She's also working out how to grab and hold onto things which is particularly entertaining, since the skill of letting go of them is yet to develop as much!

Last weekend, we had our NCT group reunion, where we decided to meet up in Jephson Gardens in Leamington. We had a nice picnic in the shade by the river, and took a group photo (only small on here since I haven't asked everyone's permission). Everyone seems to be thriving, which is great to see.

Our other excitement for the week is that we had some big thunderstorms yesterday. We were out shopping in Rugby when they rolled in, and drove home as quickly as we could, as we realised that we'd left the Velux window in our kitchen open. It took quite a while to get back, since the roads were flash-flooding, with much of the route several inches deep in water. In our road, water was fountaining out of the drains. Unfortunately, we returned to a flooded kitchen, which took an hour for me to mop up. At least it looks like the only lasting damage is to a couple of walls which are going to need re-painting. Tiresome, but it could have been worse...