Max has just gone up to put Maddy on the toilet, to discover a note on the door requesting that people only come into the room if they pass the task set for them… and there is a page of sums stuck to the door! (And they were hard!)

My children are all in love with Peter Pan. Now, who does he remind me of?

… “it’s a white pop up tent for dollys with different coloured wallpapers to hang inside!” No it isn’t. But it is my light cube 🙂 Now, off to buy a couple of decent lights and some daylight bulbs. A tripod would be good, but i can’t afford that. Yet. Muhahahahah!

The children tootled through the morning with “A Little Princess” which Fran found in her stocking this year; avid readers of several years might remember that this film (and it really is a dire representation of the novel) reduced her to hysteria and sobbing at the age of 5, so i was surprised she wanted […]

Kiddley Really nice little craft blog 🙂

I’ve had my Fimo rep here this morning; he’s a really nice chap, 3 grown up children, Essex man, grand-daughter who he clearly adores. Very easy to while away the hours chatting to him. Anyway, we got talking about this and that and after a while we got far enough into the chat that he […]

First thing this morning a selction of Amazon parcels arrived; an Eyewitness Arctic and Antarctic Interactive DVD and the Planet Earth dvd (Max’s present from my parents) plus a set of cd-rom encyclopedias. Fran watched the dvd straight through and loved it; i do like how DK manage that “on white” presentation through everything they […]

I very much hope the 2 HEing families whose experiences/options drive this post/thought process won’t mind me airing my thoughts. I won’t link to them, but they and doubtless plenty others, will know who i mean; i”m sure they’ll understand my meandering are not in the least critical of their choices/possible choices and purely a […]

BBC NEWS | England | West Yorkshire | Bed collapse as woman gives birth Ooops. 😯 Mind you, something like that would have verged on light relief in some of my birth experiences 🙄