Someone Else's Baby Sunday, December 7, 2008

Now I have read chapter 8-11.

- like the tentacles of an octopus. (känselspröt) (bläckfisk)
- He's all over bruises. (blåmärke)
- Les Barke says my aptitude is average. (genomsnitt)
- he hasn't got access and his wife got this injunction. (order/tillsägelse)
- Just routine. (rutin)
- all checked and prodding. (föremål)
- I say and I cringe with embarrassment. (besvär/penningknipa)
- this great splashing. (skval)
- Kitty's clutching. (gripa tag)
- with the trolley. (kundvagn)
- like it's possessed. (besatt)
- Not wrinkled at all. (rynkig)
- Mrs Hicks smiles encouragingly. (uppmntrante)
- He scowls. (rynka pannan)
- The pendulum swings. (klockpendel)
- His dungarees. (arbetskläder/överdragskläder)
- then we're both crying and scolding. (skäll/utskällning)
- Smells of cat and turpentine and cabbage. (terpentin) (hösäck)

"I've been looking for flats an my lunch hour. Flats round our way.
I've got a job, haven't I, and a bit saved? I suppose I can help our withmy own daughter?
We could get a little flat somewhere, just the two of usand the baby. If that's what you want."
"What about Dad?" I say.
"He'd be on his own, wouldn't he? Unless he comes around," she saysand her mouth goes into a thin line.
"Don't think he'd be on his own forlong, mind, a man like your father."
"You mean you want to leave Dad?"
"Course I don't want to leave him," she says.

This part shows that her mum wants the best for her daughter. That's why she wants to "leave" her husband and move into a flat with her pregnant daughter. She wants to help her daughter with the baby and make a good family. She loves her husband but she have to leave him for a while and spend a lot of time with her daughter.The daughter thinks that the future is uncertain.
I think that she will keep the baby. I don't think she wants to have the baby adopted.

I am anxious to read about the end..