Sadly, it’s not my new baby or my house – if only… As you may be aware, my niece Lizzie gave birth to a beautiful baby girl; Rosie made her debut appearance weighing six pounds and thirteen ounces at fourteen minutes past five last Sunday; like me, she’s a Sunday’s child – “lucky and happy, and good, and gay” (in the joyful sense!). They left hospital yesterday afternoon, not even twenty-four hours after the birth. I knew they would be tired but I rang anyway to see if I could go over “for just a peek”.

And if you, too, would like a peek, here are some of the photographs I took last night…