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You will have to forgive me for my infrequent blogging, but parenthood looms and I confess to a journalistic form of "baby brain".

Though I resisted the temptation to opt for the Beer and Bub pre-natal course, where you can prepare for fatherhood in a pub with a soothing libation, our classes had a distinctly Australian flavour nonetheless.

Our tutor was a delightful Melbournian who called us "possums" and "darls" throughout, and whose 40 minute simulation of the final stages of labour will live long in the memory both as an object lesson in birthing, and a journey into some of the lesser-known reaches of the Australian vernacular.

From start to finish, this has very much been an Anglo-Australian project, and now that it is about to reach its fruition the blog will take some paternity leave.

If you will allow me to lapse briefly into the third person, Nick Bryant's Australia will be back shortly, after my wife and I have welcomed into the world our newborn Anglo-Australian...

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