Josie found herself with a premature baby to look after, with no warning and nowhere really suitable to take him.  I lived at that time in a one-room flat up two flights of stairs; there was not even a hallway downstairs to leave a pram.  She didn't have a cot, so the baby slept in an improvised cot made from a cardboard box. The box was a Windward Islands banana box; when we went to stay with Kate and Rachel they too had made a cot from a Windward Islands banana box. Five months after he was born Josie was offered a house by Thanet Council and he has lived there ever since.

James was plagued by health and sleep problems as a baby because of the circumstances of his birth; however, after years of struggle he has turned into a real boy, who does all the things real boys do.  He is heavily into computer games, with a collection of games machines and a large collection of PC games as well.  All my children got an early start with computers; this one earlier than the others (since there was no such thing as a personal computer when my own kids were this age).  Not only has he several e-mail addresses, but he has his own web site as well.