Alice is one year old

Alice should have been celebrating her first birthday on Sunday 19 Dec at Matlock with her parents. Together with Jon and Rae, Sélène and Neil, we had planned to have a pre-Xmas get-together in Derbyshire this weekend, but the snowy and cold weather put paid to that. Instead, Sylvie and I dropped off at Didcot on our way to Portsmouth, where we are due to catch a boat on Tueday evening to St Malo. Here are no videos of Alice trying to stand and of her opening some presents.