I could start this post by saying we are confirmed campers. When I think about it though, I haven’t actually had a proper tent holiday since before I was pregnant with Freddie. I can’t even pinpoint it now. Maybe the Summer before but I think not, so probably even the summer before that. If it […]
It's not much but it's home.
One of the things I had intended to do this year was make our home more… well… homely. When we first moved here we were all of a dither with big stuff that had been going on. The move was a rush job anyway, one that certainly took the then 18 month old Josie by […]
All a bit complicated
There are a lot of things in this post. Some reasons to chatter and some reasons why I haven’t been doing so much of that too. Sometimes the only way forward is to tumble it out and let anyone who wants to sift the melting pot. There is the large and the small tucked into […]
A Day of Two Halves – Race for Life Day
Both of them were good 🙂 Since, oh, I dunno, April perhaps, I’ve been going out running 3 or 4 times a week, following the Couch 2 5K interval running programme. To start with, I couldn’t even run for a minute, but over the weeks, it has built up until, 10 days before the Race […]
Happy Wedding Anniversary
We’ve been married 13 years today. Not bad for any couple; really, under a multitude of circumstances, pretty good for us, because they’ve not exactly been the smoothest of years. I’d have given a lot, 3 years ago, to know we were going to get to 13 years: it wasn’t something that looked certain at […]
Birthday Girls
Earlier in May, Amelie was 9. She had a lovely day I think, even though we didn’t actually do much. It isn’t every child who would be quite so thrilled with a Jayne’s Aircraft Manual, but I’m not complaining. There is nothing wrong with a child who has a good smattering of weird interests 😀 […]
The Things They Say
I love it when children come up with cute things and say them. Josie, for instance, last week said ??I think I must be allergic to not having chocolate, because I felt sick, so I ate some chocolate and now I??m fine!?? Result. On the other hand?? ??How old IS Kate Middleton??? ??About 9 years […]
Allotment Watch
You can’t say fairer than seeing your first little shoots of stuff coming up 🙂 While the garden is fairly bursting with veggie life, the allotment is (understandably) behind it but these onions were only put in over the Royal Wedding Weekend and shoots were really exciting to see. There was also a garlic shoot […]
Trains…
The kids have been reasonably pleased with the whole “Night Mail” thing and have done some great work on it. I’ve not done photos yet but Maddy has done an amazing snippet of poem to fit into it:- “And though the country is very vast, she’ll never get lost, she’ll keep going fast. She’ll follow […]
The Gallery: April
As things go, the Gallery provided too many opportunities for reflection this month. Too many I couldn’t walk past: they felt like a summons. But April hasn’t been a sad month, after all, it has been a happy month, one that has helped me see how lucky I am, even if it takes a certain […]
