A serenade to a delightful and tiny new Irishman in London... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Birth registration for Tadhg, by Rory Gleeson above.
In a few days time I will travel two kilometres down the road or so to Camden Registry Office, with my rapidly deflating girlfriend, and a carry cot filled with something terribly personal, to register the birth of my son.
It's frosty in London, the grass frozen white each day before sunrise. I know this because which I am there to witness it, my son having kept me up to do so....
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.