… that when Smelly and Belly were eaten by a giant baby, Amelie replaced her imaginary children with 2 new ones, called Jesus and Beezus? Well she did. And currently, she is outside in the garden exclaiming “Oh JESUS!!!!!!!!!” extremely loudly and with feeling while playing mummy with her imaginary child in a pushchair, while […]

The kids want to do Hama and i can’t find my hama-ing kit; it is lost in the garage somewhere, thousands of beads in colour sorted order and bags of ones that split or did something else ridiculous… but can i find it? No. They live in a House of Hama and they are starved […]

Well, if nothing else, the title has reminded me of another blog that my rss feed has inexplicably just “lost” for me again; it has something of the personality of the sock monster, does Sage 😕 The day began with the castle, which Amelie loves and i thought might provide her with some entertainment while […]

The last two days of our holiday together have passed is an easy-going blur; despite not being what we intended to do at all, i think the downtime has been good for us and the fact that i got to catch up on desperately overdue jobs without having to shut down my business really helped […]

Big Brain Academy – gets the thumbs up here 🙂 Braintraining for kids and numpty adults (like me!) 🙂 Edited to add link – it has taster plays of some of the games.

I couldn’t blog like this, i forget things that happen in a day, a whole week is going to be impossible! Right, with the benefit of a months worth of flickring to back me up….. Sunday – tidied stock room Spent day working at the 32 point long jobs list and reduced it to managable […]

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Not been blogging much for a variety of reasons. The most pertinent is that Max is on holiday this week and we were going to be going away, but for a variety of reasons that hasn’t happened and we are, for the first time in years, having a holiday at home. Which is lovely and […]

1994 was the summer that Max and i got together; i have fond memories of curling up on his bed, beers in hand and watching the football, something that was a complete mystery to me because despite having grown up with a sports journalist for a dad, it had never really been on while i […]

I feel like our days don’t blog well at the moment; i don’t get time to pontificate the way i’d like to, or write meaningful posts about what we do, or why, or how and how it relates to my parenting, or my view of HE and how it has changed over 4, nearly 5 […]