Hello world! Yes the new Mrs S has been coerced into writing a blog entry. We have now been married for three months which has gone very fast. Married life is great fun, Jim is my best friend and it’s great to wake up with him each day (ahh!). We have learnt new things about each other since getting married such as how Jim regularly leaves his clothes in a special pile on the floor at night and Jim has learnt that I need at least an hour to get ready in the morning before we can go out. Jim’s latest hobby is growing a little patch of lawn in a seed tray which is our ‘garden’. Our small but beautifully formed flat doesn’t have any outside space. Jim is very precise in cutting his grass so that it is all the exact same length, after which he always sits back and admires it with pride (how sweet). We are on the first day of our holiday (Jim is still in bed - how shocking!). We are going to go to the new forest on Monday for a spot of camping, which I am really looking forward to as haven’t been camping in ages. I love the new forest as it reminds me of childhood holidays with my grandparents in their Volkswagen camper van. We always took bikes with us and had great fun cycling around the forest looking at the cute ponies and the big ant hills in Ashurst.

Little Esther Arthur Worsop is geting dedicated tomorrow, she was born on 2nd June 2006 at 8:25pm and is very beautiful with amazing eyes that are very alert - she is always looking at her surroundings. I wonder who she’ll grow up to be - it’s very exciting.

Well I think I’ll end my first blog there, I hope you’ve enjoyed it! Love Claire xxxx

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife” –Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice