Of one sort and another 🙂 Max and i had our first weigh in this morning, on our self-imposed healthy eating lark. I lost 2lbs in a week, added to the 2lbs i lost between Xmas and New Year. So i am completely thrilled with myself 🙂 It has made such a difference to have […]

Boot One Boot Two Boot Three Boot Four Boot Five Boot Six Okay… none of these actually make me snort (and in fact i like one or more of them) , not in the way the ones that annoyed me did anyway… but they are all size 13, so in effect all intended to be […]

Done – and in profit for my first year of trading, in black and white on that there excel sheet. Phew! Now i just need to fill in that form and post it and the job is, as they say, a good’un. *Must be more organised in future!*

Scraping the title barrel these days 😆 Today has ended a generally pleasant “getting back to it” week. I feel much more upbeat about things now that i have Amelie properly back. I feel like i can start to get some sort of rhythm back into the day now, which is a massive relief. i […]

Or perhaps it is just a little out of my league… I’m hunting unsuccessfully for oil pastel tutorials, not wanting to buy more books because i am being frugal and thinknig that this OUGHT to be freely available formart enthusiasts on the net. Sure it would have been a few years ago. It is sort […]

Today was the first day back to nursery for Amelie – at about midday i suggested it, she looked doleful and i finally decided that spending half the morning persuading her to do something she half wants and i don’t want is really, really silly. So i phoned up and withdrew her. Phew. There, i […]

Always makes me smile 🙂 (In fact, a “pink skirt” flickr group is probably in order!)

…said the Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo. Fran has been listening to Just So Stories from Audible, so she knew this one and joined in with gusto. We’ve done stories early today, at the end of a pleasantly educational day; i started reading this just to Fran as the other two refused to listen, […]

I have been coming to the conclusion, over the last 6 months or so, that the only possible explanation for having ended up with a Joey Maynard brace of girls is that i willed them on myself with all those Chalet School Stories. And having done so, not to subject them to some form of […]

I’m determined to add more art into this year, both theoretical and practical art, so we decided to start the month with getting out some paints and stuff, just to see where we are at. I wasn’t very organised, nor did we (Tammy and me) try to guide them particularly but it will be good […]