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Popping with Pride.

February 21, 2013 by

Just for once I’m not going to blog about my children. I’m going to tell you about my mum, just for a moment. You might have seen the Channel 4 documentary about the “Bionic Man” are project about seeing how far we can go in reconstructing a human from the inventions medical science have created […]

Filed Under: Science, Trips Out Tagged With: artificial pancreas, bionic man, diabetes, Professor Joan taylor

That Panto. Memories for later years.

February 12, 2013 by

When I was a child I wanted toi dance in a panto more than anything in the world. Actually, I wanted to dance more than anything in the world but my mum said she would pay for lessons for me (at 10) only if I phones up and did the finding out myself. I was […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Sport & Dance

By the Smurfs! Maddy is 13!

February 10, 2013 by

I think I got my cake making badge today. Maddy turned 13 in the week, celebrating it on a day out to the Spring Fair with Max and opening the latest ever family birthday presents at 9pm 🙂 She let me save the cake till the weekend so I had more time (thanks Maddy) and […]

Filed Under: Cookery, Family Life, Maddy Tagged With: cake decoration, smurf cake, smurfs, two teenagers

June Sims of Bow

February 6, 2013 by

Today Amelie, who into all intents and purposes appears to have been at school forever, went on a school trip. Dressed as an evacuee, she walked in crocodile to the steam train station, got the train to Stibbington school (variously used for world war, Victorian, brownie and Eco events!) and spent the day as an […]

Filed Under: Amelie, School

The big change. School again.

January 25, 2013 by

A while ago, I don’t know where, I think I wrote a little about how  much we felt Amelie was outgrowing being home educated. In an ideal world, this would not be so; if she was the eldest, if her brother had not died, if I hadn’t had the business, or Bene, if she had […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Home Education, School

Why I'm quiet.

January 17, 2013 by

There are all sorts of reasons. One is I’m spending my evenings listening to the Wee Free Men books while making this. Another is I’ve been making these. Because I really want to get back to selling handmade things this year and I have masses of plans and not much time. Then there is crawling […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Being a Parent, Family Life, Garden, Home Education, Merrily Empire, Thinking Tagged With: family life, grief olympics, new craft shop, thoughts

Our Christmas.

January 5, 2013 by

Apparently I say to my friends every year that I’ve been more frugal this Christmas. And I never have been 🙂 Well, this year I wasn’t especially frugal in £’s but in present terms we went more minimalist. There weren’t really toys this year, only Josie and Bene got anything toy like at all; everyone […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Family Life, Freddie, Grief

Sad

December 18, 2012 by

My blogging mojo is all gone, though it might be here if there was any time between housework and educating and holiday and taxi driving pantomime dancers around. And everyone else's christmas, which they remembered nearly as late as I did and so corresponding quantities of panic have been detected in those ordering from our […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Grief, Uncategorized

November you can kiss my….

November 29, 2012 by

It seems November is determined to compete with April for crapola. It's been a really tough month. For the sake of argument we will include here the last two events of October. First there was my cork plugging op, which sadly did not go entirely as planned or hoped. To the best of my knowledge […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life, Maddy Tagged With: argh, balanitis, essure, eye surgery, illness, stress, swollen thyroid, worry

A walk.

November 26, 2012 by

It shouldn't seem like a big thing, because it isn't. Only it is, because the last 3 years I've really struggled to go out without another adult. It's a much bigger problem than I've wanted to admit and I've hidden it better than I might have because there is usually Max or a friend to […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Grief, Home Education, The Girls, Trips Out

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