It is nice to finally meet other mums and babies | Cheryl Gibbs

Your entire life as you once knew it changes overnight and no matter what people tell you, you honestly cant prepare yourself for the life change – or at least that’s how it was for us.

Couple that with going into lockdown when she was just five weeks old and not being able to do all the things you had planned during your maternity leave, such as attending baby groups, meeting other new mums or simply having someone hold your baby, feeding her and giving you a bit of support just went completely out of the window and we were alone.

It was, on reflection, quite a big thing to happen to us as new parents but we tried our best, like everyone did, to make the best of it.

I’ll always reason that what we missed out on, we gained in unique family time just the three of us.

Having said all that, I was so delighted to have started some form of what I thought would be normal parenting last week when we joined some baby groups.

We’ve gone from not going anywhere or seeing anyone to swimming every weekend. Harley and I are now signed up to two baby classes each week – baby sensory and monkey music.

I think it’s taking a bit of adjusting for Harley – to go from being in the confines of our bungalow to ‘here’s the world, let’s dance, play, listen to music and have fun’.

But I’m so pleased that she loved her first little group classes.

It made all the difference in the world to our week and I can’t wait to take her again next week.

All the things we once took for granted are such big milestones now and I take every one of them with a new perspective and zest of enthusiasm.

Lockdown was hard for Harley and it’s taken its toll on her socially.

She doesn’t like to be away from us very long and even though she’s seen both sides of our family for a while now, she still suffers when away from us.

But I’m hoping the classes with help her socially – and me too!

I cannot stop stuffing my face with delicious brownies

Now that Harley and I have joined some baby groups we’re spending a fair amount of our time predominantly in Petersfield.

To be fair, it’s not like it’s far from Clanfield.

But there’s one downside. My guilty pleasure is to visit Petersfield Pond. ‘What’s wrong with that?’ I hear you cry…

Well, I can’t visit the heath without paying the Plump Duck café a visit and buying one too many of their brownies. I can’t even talk about how good they are – they’re quite literally the best brownies I’ve ever had.

I will tell anyone who will listen you cannot walk around without coming away with one of them – you won’t regret it. Your hips might, but you won’t. Trust me.

Kanye West embarrasses himself over and over again

I honestly don’t understand Kanye West – I mean, who does really?

One minute, he’s running for US presidency and the next he’s posting videos of himself urinating. It just gets weirder and weirder.

The rapper and music mogul posted a video of himself weeing over a Grammy award in protest against labels Universal and Sony over who owns the right to his music. It’s just another bizarre act of behaviour in the world of Kanye West.

He’s trying to gain ownership to the copyright of his songs, but is peeing all over them the way to show the world you’re mature enough to take on such heavyweights like Universal and Sony? I don’t understand him at all.