Archives for 2006

Easter with cousins and BIL and SIL, long nights talking, long days playing. Easter egg hunts round the garden for 6 lovely girls. A house the same style as ours, on the same development, selling for £30k more than we’ve paid. 😀 Lovely children sharing bikes round a lake. Josie walking a mile on her […]

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Fran – Cluefinders Yr 3, spelling, maths (negative numbers), lots of reading, some knitting. Maddy – Cluefinders Yr 3, finished handwriting, read to me, lots of drawing, lots of binca sewing. Amelie – NickJr website, Dora games, Reader Rabbit Thinking. Josie – climbed into bed in middle of the night and said “Oh no, baby […]

Taking a short break, of a matter of days or weeks. Jax, could you hiberate me please? Will be back when life back on the straight and narrow 🙂

All exchanged. Small matter of a large maount of money to fret about, but hey 😆 Otherwise had a friend here, Maddy’s godmother, with her two boys. A good day alround with much super-hero playing. 🙂

No we didn’t exchange. We should do today and we should move on 3rd May. So that was a nice and stressful day. 🙄

… is a good day to own Carphone Warehouse Shares 😀

We eventually sorted out the radiator courtesy of a dashing young plumber who had definitely had a public school education and then turned his back on becoming a solicitor to break the hearts of the fee payers and became a plumber instead. I seriously considered locking up my daughters in the face of such dashing […]

And it was. Our kitchen radiator burst 🙁 Cue lots of extremely dirty water, several significantly wrecked towels and no apparent way of actually stopping the damn thing spraying very hot, disgusting water everywhere. We tried turning off the valve, but that didn’t work and we were lying in bed and listening to gurgles, we […]

Judging by my children’s astonished and outraged expressions when we read about Danny’s experience with a school cane and Captain Lancaster, they clearly don’t consider themselves to be beaten children, despite the fact that they do occasionally get the odd smack. This is a relief, as i’m getting a little tired of feeling like i’m […]