Greetings! We are currently in the thick of the coursework season, which has unleashed a veritable monsoon of mediocre work all over the house. The net result of this is that with the demands of a) marking/totally rewriting it so that it has some semblance of coherence and quality and b) banging my head against the table in despair at the sheer brain-numbing awfulness of the work before me, I've been left with little time to update our dogged band of devoted readers with the latest developments in Olivia-land.

So here's a rapid summary of the latest before I plunge back into that sea of butchered prose...

As the pic above illustrates, Olivia is now happily tottering all over the place, only resorting to crawling if she's in a particular hurry, i.e. she's noticed we've carelessly left the remote control unmanned in the middle of the carpet. She even essays a little jog when she's in the mood, and at her current rate of progress I'll be able to send her on errands up to the paper shop before the year is out!