www.flickr.com Especially for Alison, when she returns 🙂 I found a photo of Amelie in this top at the weekend, she was nearly 2. Josie is all but grown out of it now. Chubbychops 🙂

The one where Merry gets back to the point. I think this year has been the most significant yet in terms of our HE life. It’s been the one where i let go of some things and picked up some others that i had shed because i listened outside before i listened inside, an acceptable […]

…will post its 600th parcel since turning into the new version of shop tomorrow, which is just slightly less than 9 months is not bad going really i suppose, especially when you think its been closed for 6 weeks of that and i’ve not yet done a December with the shop either. Feel very proud […]

I’ve learned all the lyrics, will someone do a duet with me? This one, Tears and Rain, is my favourite, just at the moment. Every time i hear these words: “Like Dorian Gray, I’ve heard what they say, but I’m not here for trouble “ i keep thinking i must get back to my Big […]

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indecency guide for tourists to India Okay… you could be forgiven for forgetting that kissing isn’t on, but what was with the Finnish woman??????

…in case anyone wonders… is no. She didn’t sleep. She woke up at 11pm and didn’t go back to sleep until 3am, by which time i had reluctantly started on “put her in her cot and leave her there” as an option. 🙁 Still, i guess this is one particular flogging rod i can now […]

If i could bottle a time and then bring it out for a quick pick-me-up every so often, i’d do now. It’s great 🙂 I feel like we’ve reached a high as a family and i like it. The big girls are biggish, the little ones are pleasantly little and life is busy but ultimately […]

Can you get them with radios built in?

And well done to Kris too, who finished a few minutes before me, by the look of it 🙂 Of course i haven’t really finished, it turned into a monster and is only half way through. Max is hoping i’m secretly a genius and he’ll be able to retire on my literary millions. Bless 😉 […]

What have we done today? Nothing, other than cancelling group. Too many sick people. In the event though, a couple of people turned up at the hall and rang me, so they came round for a while and braved our germs. Very brave. My throat is really sore. other than that, it’s been pitiful – […]