It’s not often I delete a half written post, but I just have. I wanted to write something meaningful about the coverage of the 9/11 anniversary this weekend, but honestly I don’t have the stomach for it. Maybe I’d just end up adding to the one thing I find so difficult about our world wide […]
Archives for September 2011
Dartmeet & parting with Dartmoor
For our last day, which was shaping up to be the hottest of all of them, we went to another new place. In fact, this time we did so many new things that we didn’t manage to fit in lots of old favourites and ended up not doing or seeing all the places and people […]
Buckland and Bude.
Which does sound rather like a firm of solicitors I think. As is usual, we made use of our National Trust membership. If you are a large family, days out with individual entry are just prohibitively expensive but NT membership means we can drop in and out of places without feeling we must squeeze every […]
Keeping WALKING!!!!
One of the things that struck me this holiday was how happily my children are entertained by very simple pleasures. I know lots of people like to pack holidays full of educational days out and seeing everything? and I know that essentially we are quite boring as we tend to just go back to the […]
Back where we belong.
Not the most auspicious of starts to a holiday 😆 The way down to Devon was dogged by bad traffic and the journey took much longer than normal. Fortunately, *she says, getting the plug in early* Three had lent us a Mifi Mobile Broadband doodah which meant iPhone and iPods could have a decent connection […]
Off to a good home while smelling of Persil & good intentions.
I’m sure we aren’t the only house which seems to end up with a completely insane number of cuddly toys. of course, owning a toy shop hasn’t helped, nor has the ‘tradition’ of a new animal each at Christmas every year (that mounts up in a family of this size!) and it does seem that […]
The Other Blog. It's mine, all mine.
I said I’d never do it again, but a while ago, as some people know, I started another blog. It isn’t secret, just more personal, more for me. A different thing. It occurred to me a while ago that this family blog will be a family legacy always, our history written through my eyes, but […]
Same as me
The woman in the cafe surveys my family with a smile. “Four girls,” she says approvingly. “Same as me.” I smile back, though these conversations are not easy and, when Max is there, I’m robbed if the ability to say anything that I feel comfortable with. Max has four girls. I have four girls and […]
