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Normal service will resume…

October 11, 2012 by

Shortly. Possibly. Life has got rather complicated. Not only do we have children doing what is fast becoming an almost impossible combination of activities but business is heading into its busy time and 2 of our staff are moving. Gulp. Luckily we will manage, but the well oiled machine will be, erm, using different oil. […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Fimo Models, Fran, Photos, Thinking, Trips Out

Legacies

October 8, 2012 by

I must admit, I thought it would stop. I thought a point would come where the anxiety would cease and the old person would take over again. The person I was who kissed better and brushed off sickness and hurts and assumed that they'd just be better next day. Two an a half years on, […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Freddie, Grief

Semantics. Conversation. Truths.

October 4, 2012 by

In the doctors the other day With Bene, not yet as poorly as he was today sat on the floor, an old lady asked me how many children I had. And I replied, as I always do “I have had six, he is number six”. Across the room another lady chipped in; “Six! How did […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Freddie, Grief, Thinking

Tick tock, goes the clock.

September 27, 2012 by

Dear Bene, And now you are eight months. I was so buy last month that I didn't even write you a letter, though I did write about your first holiday. Sorry about that. You keep me pretty buy these days little man and everything else has needed attention too, the house, your sisters and life. […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Letters to Bene

It's a big PlayMerrily Toys Giveaway Day!

September 12, 2012 by

We did this once before and it is time to do it again!!!!! If you’d like some free toys, then all you need to do it pipe up and do the following:- Take a look at this picture and see what you fancy. Take a look at this picture and see what you fancy. If […]

Filed Under: Merrily Empire

Make the best of it.

September 9, 2012 by

The girls were away this weekend. In the olden days, we relished a weekend off but these days we miss them when they aren't here. They're such good company. Plus of course, it meant Max and I were a two man tag team keeping the amazing non-napping boy occupied 🙂 We took him to visit […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Family Life, Photos

It's just what you do.

September 3, 2012 by

I happened upon a post on Glow that touched the nerve of how I felt this weekend. This bit in particular, written by Kate. “Christ, but some days I feel completely insane with the fucking rage. Then I go to sleep. Then I get up again, and shower, and scramble eggs, and try again. Because […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Freddie

In the end.

August 24, 2012 by

In the end, it all comes back to one simple thing. I was one person and then my world fell apart. I put it back together and it fell apart all over again when my son died. Putting it back together again, trying to pick up the reins of a life that ran away from […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Freddie, Grief, Thinking

Right, so that was us, in the rain, on Dartmoor.

August 23, 2012 by

It would take far more than a bit of rain to depress us though. In fact, Dartmoor rain nearly managed to be funny by the end of the week. We managed to pitch the girls tent in a short gap in the deluge (I say we, I mean Max and Fran, obviously) and then snuggled […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Trips Out Tagged With: catacombs, dead things, exeter museum, rain, stuffed giraffes, stuffed tigers

Bene had a holiday.

August 20, 2012 by

We finally got away for a holiday. We went back, again, to the farm we love so much, deep in the Dartmoor hills that have our heart. It is the most amazing place. You should go. Really. Just not all of you or we won’t be able to book our weeks 😉 When we went […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Trips Out, Uncategorized Tagged With: best holiday cottage on Dartmoor, dartmoor, holiday with a baby, Lower Hookner Farm

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