Just a few weeks before Anya came along we went out with a friend-of-a-friend and photographer, Ann Nidrie, to get some photos taken of ourselves in the bloom of late pregnancy.

It was a beautiful day, as she describes on her own blog. The only slight downer was that, while posing for images of us lying together amidst ivy-like ground weeds, I managed to lie straight in some dog crap. The positive way of looking at this is that (1) it produced some good pictures (2) at least it was me rather than the expectant mother who ended up with poo on his jacket and (3) there's got to be a culture, somewhere, where lying in dog crap, like being shat on by a pigeon, is some perverse mark of good luck.

Anyway the pictures were beautiful so I thought I'd put in a link to the full gallery here.