7.00am – Max brings me a cup of tea, i spent 20 minutes on my AC town waking up, a sleeping Maddy on one side of me. 7.30am – go and make a start on the parcels from the weekend (printed off last night), stop occasionally to look at blogs, list stuff on ebay, do […]

In which Raymondpappa nearly gets his head blown up, Frankin meets a toad and Itch learns all about Swiss neutrality. (Yes, we’re still reading the Moomins!) Lovely couple of days; spent yesterday replanting lots of the things we brought from the last house into the garden (how i love having topsoil without weed seeds in […]

Your type is: infp —The “Tuned In” Mother “Inside our children, I believe, is a truth that tells them what’s best for them. I am always listening for that truth.” * Aware, astute, and understanding, the INFP mother is sensitive to her child’s needs, feelings, and perceptions. By observing and listening to the cues of […]

Today i needed a break, a day without constant demands on my brain. Yesterday seemed to be one of those days where everything just reach unmanagable proportions; too many questions, too many asks, too many bits of stuff going on, just too much noise. So today Max shut me in my office (oh hurrah for […]

Took the girls out to the local HE group today since we’ve been a bit too housebound recently. it was an African drumming and singing session and it was great. Can’t say i’d ever noticed the the reason African music sounds so different is because it mixes all sorts of beats into one, rather than […]

Life is feeling almost idyllic here for people. I can hardly believe the level to which our general life stress has dropped. The extra room really makes such a difference, though i think the £260 we spent on parcel collection has possibly made as much difference as the £200k we spent on the house 😆 […]

And most of the rest of the photos on the stream are rather strange ones Amelie took of aspects of the house, but in the ned i rather liked her take on her new home, so i left them! And a rare half decent one of me… The girls driving my parcels by train to […]

BBC NEWS | Wales | Woman allowed to sunbathe naked let me just check, in case i have gone completely mad… is it the person sunbathing in her back garden who is a weirdo, or the person who filmed her???????

Tuesday, the birthday day, was very pleasant and mostly involved playing – school stories have half holidays for the heads birthday so surely a viable activity in an HE family has to be nothing on a child’s birthday? I have lovely photos of dinner out, which i’ll blog tomorrow, if i ever work out why […]

You Are Duck Exotic and unusual, you are a bit of a rare bird – literally. You’re known for being soft and succulent, though at times you can be a bit greasy. What Kind of Meat Are You?