This weekend involved a lot of driving ( not by me! Result!) so that my girls could spend time with friends they have known since they were babies doing this. And lining up for photos to compare size in various combinations. There was a time when these two appeared to be built in the same […]
To our eldest girl on her 16th birthday.
You are 16. Old enough to marry. Sensible enough not to. I shopped for you yesterday, finding time for trinkets on the London streets. I breathed down tears once or twice as I bought the odd mixture of toy and tinsel that befits you. Grown up. Still a girl. Young woman. Our baby. If I […]
A good day.
It’s not often that a trip to Milton Keynes and an ill prepared exam equal a good day. Today they did. Today I met up with a friend and the woman she will marry soon to pick my best woman dress. And I fitted into dresses without whimpering and picked from two that looked lovely […]
Just a dog.
These times are more frequent lately. Flashbacks. Returning memories. A sudden glimpse of Freddie’s face in his sleeping brothers profile. A flicker of something that was gone and which is seeping back, slinking in through back doorways left unthinkingly open. I don’t try to look back. I don’t hunt for memories. I think that if […]
Garden Bunting
I had good plans for the garden last Autumn when I put together a plan for a make over competition (which I came nowhere at all in!). My Pinterest board full of pretty sensory ideas keeps staring at me and I’m just beginning to wonder if Fran and I can pull off a short and […]
Heart to Heart.
Cheesy title 😉 Last week I purchased an xCut machine, a euphemistic expression for ‘decided the business needed one’. I do have great business plans for it but first I need to play 🙂 I’m not massively interested in paper crafts, though I keep meaning to do some scrapbooks but I do love felt, though […]
Let's hear it for the girls.
I’m all out of blogging mojo and blogging time but this needs recording. The girls competed in a gym comp at the weekend. I’ll have to add video later for posterity but here is a picture to remind me of a great day. They both did well although it was not Fran’s day really (gcses […]
The elephant in the room.
It took a very long time before I stopped seeing all the triggers the world holds as personally aimed assaults on my ability to stay standing. The radio songs, the names in books, the boy baby in blue who caught my eye and smiled at me outside of what felt normal. I grew a crust […]
Soothing Stitches: Knitting again but crochet too.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done any knitting but the opportunity to review some yarn came up recently and it was too good an opportunity to resist. The first item is a work in progress but you might have seen me Instagramming it; it’s been quite enjoyable to get back to knitting for […]
Things with wheels.
The boy likes things with wheels. Car. Bike. Truck. Lorry (lor-ee). Van. Digger. Bus. He likes them a lot. He likes to acknowledge every vehicle we see and he likes us to acknowledge them back. Car journeys are fun 🙄 So as you can imagine, Truckfest from his bedroom window makes for a deliriously happy […]
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