I’m feeling rather virtuous tonight: we’ve given away a load of Bubbah’s old baby stuff that she doesn’t need any more – high chair, rocking chair and stand for a moses basket – on the always-wonderful Freecycle.

Freecycle works by offering a forum for people-with-stuff-to-get-rid-of to meet with people-who-might-need/want-that-stuff.  You post on the forums saying what you’ve got and (roughly) where you are; people who are looking for stuff can browse the forums and reply to your post; between you you sort out when and how they come to collect your unwanted stuff.  It’s all as safely anonymous as possible and as fair as you want to make it.

We advertised our stuff on Saturday and had about a dozen responses.  The first one was very polite and just as importantly, wanted to take all three items at once.  Most were polite and nice, but some only wanted one or two of the items, which would have made it all unnecessarily complicated.  Anyway, I emailed back to the first reply this morning, a couple of very nice ladies come round to collect it all tonight and have just sent us a lovely thank-you email offering to buy the girls whatever sweets they want as a thank you!

Freecycle is just one of those fantastic ideas that regularly restores my faith in humanity (and a small added bonus is that the forums are provided by my employer, Yahoo!)

Finally: apologies are in order to Millie for my suggestion that she might be regularly weeing on her bedroom floor in the night.  She hasn’t been, and I was recklessly remiss in even suggesting such a ludicrous idea.

A plumber is due round ours first thing tomorrow morning to fix the leak beneath her bedroom floor.

And, bless her, she’s doing very well with her new glasses.  Millie, we’re prouder than ever to be your parents today.