Effectively we're having a weekend apart as Alison and myself won't see much of each other. At the moment she is round her mother's to share in the Children in Need experience, which is a little tradition they have and I may stop up long enough to see her before going to bed ready for my overtime tomorrow morning. When I return Alison is working tomorrow afternoon and for 12 hours on Sunday and she will get back in time then before I leave to start my night shift. So providing she doesn't get any more shifts I might see her when I get up on Monday afternoon. I suppose this will happen more and more as we organize shifts so that someone is always here to look after Bethany.
   To continue from last night, there may have been other points I wished to make but what I can recall is something I meant to mention a while back but had my memory jogged by my rant against Jane Moore. Referring to Mohammed as being the top name for boys (despite officially being Oliver) I remember checking the list when they were first published to see how our little contribution to the statistics had fared.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=15282

Bethany is ranked at 53 with a total of 1135 babies named such in 2009 - a drop of 3 places from the previous year. Curiously it had dropped 42 places since 1999 - I say curiously as I was not aware that it had been so prevalent 11 years ago although I must confess not to have really examined these statistics in much detail before, only the most popular names from every so often kept popping up in the various baby name books that we looked through and it didn't seem familiar. Anyway I, in a strange way, was quite pleased with this position: not too popular to be commonplace and possibly confusing with the potential of a number of classmates having the same name and not too rare as to be deliberately obscurantist with a name that frankly could be just made up. Happily coasting along in mid-table, which, along with all the other reasons previously discussed was another consideration when deciding her name, or at least the short(ish)list.