Archives for 2009

Well, if strictly accurate, before Upwood, Max and i had a few nights away in a hotel while the girls went to my parents house. They had a complete ball (and were shattered on their return)! Mum got them playing Ave Maria on a combination of cello, flute, glock and harmonica (!) and they’d had […]

I’ve heard about this for a few years and not got round to going. In general i am glad we did, though the entrance fee wasn’t on the website and was quite high, so i wish i had known and had gone for the whole day, not just the afternoon. Still it was hot, so […]

This was ages ago but i just realised that i didn’t blog it and as i’m trying to keep a better record of what we do, i thought i would quickly pop some pics and so on in. This was a Brownies trip and like last year, we all went for the day. Fran went […]

I would like to tell you, out loud and forever, how proud i have been of you this month. For a month you have had you arm in a hot, ticklish, sweaty cast after you broke your arm while being just a little too exuberant and excited. As a child who spends most of her […]

And with a lot of this Hoping it will make her remember to keep her legs straight if i blog this! Amelie and i spent a long drawn out afternoon in the Fracture CLinic, resulting in good news about mending and a purple cast. Fran decided to do a project on fashion while she was […]

This week, almost immediately upon our return from Fran’s hospital stay, we received a letter from her Speech and Language Therapist to say that she had been signed off and was no longer under her care, but had been returned to the “main fold” of Addenbrookes Cleft Team centre care. I’ve got mixed feeling about […]

There is a story about me, when i was very little, that i was taken to a PYO farm with my two slightly older cousins. It was a courgette field and my cousins kept taking the vegetables i found (allegedly) before i could, making me extremely cross 😆 Apparently my 3 year old self eventually […]

Last week Fran had to have her repeat operation; last year she had a bone graft from her hip into the space in her mouth. It was a horrible op, with lots of pain and bleeding and she took a long time to recover emotionally from it, mostly i think because they didn’t call us […]

Twice in the last few weeks we’ve had the opportunity to go into Cambridge and experience The Cloth Place, a completely hands on, creative soft play area that has real life items alongside handmade cloth artifacts. Split into several areas, the kids had only 2 rules – not to hurt each other, or themselves. Otherwise […]