Here are a couple of clips of Maddy playing her two instruments. She has been playing guitar for 18 months or so and having lessons for a year. She still likes it but gets a little frustrated when the sequences are hard. Still, it will be a great instrument to have later on, so i […]

Nothing of great excitement, but a few things to record. Last Monday, Amelie got her cast taken off but was told at the same time to take it easy (no cartwheels) for another couple of weeks. She’s back at gym (was as soon as the red cast went on) but this has actually good for […]

As described below, ordinary, average days where we’re all a bit motivated out, often do revolve around “normals”. So yesterday, while music lessons with our much loved music teacher were happening in the dining room there was a fair bit of this sort of stuff going on too. Reading a fiction/faction type book to give […]

As regular readers will know, Fran had decided to start senior school this September, to see what it was all about, so she spent the last summer term at a local Juniors to prepare her. The Seniors she had been offered wasn’t the greatest, in fact i never heard anyone say anything particularly good about […]

I wouldn’t normally post such things but this survey has been put together by professor Joan Taylor, a researcher at De Montfort University, who happens to be my mother. Since i was a little girl, she has been working on a brilliant pump, filled with a gel that holds Insulin, that releases it in response […]