Maddy has got to the end of the introductory books in the Roger Red-Hat series. She is sort of reading, in the strange but now recognisable stage which goes something like “I can read so long as it is only within this reading scheme where i can predict the story by recognisable pictures and i’ve […]

The one time i unthinkingly abbreviate “large hexagon to follow” to “large hex to follow” – it has to be to someone who i offend by sending them a hex! *Gives up*

Hurrah for people who hand out double doses of AB’s. I made it through today with hardly any painkillers 🙂 That said, i didn’t really feel up to moving far from a chair today but the children were remarkably obliging about it, if you leave aside Josie who is all out of sync and howled […]

If you are a friend on my flickr account, you’ll be able to see a photo on my flickr thingy of one of our portraits from today. It is the most recent pic on the stream at the moment. If you aren’t, you…um.. won’t. Sorry about that 🙂 If you should be, let me know […]

Good things first – the Melrose stairs, a bit of bad tummy and swollen tonsils have done their work – i’m another 1lb lighter this week. So that makes 11lbs since Christmas Eve now. I’m not sure that anyone could really tell yet, but i can. Plus my husband is practically wasting away; i’m going […]

I’ve just watched someone get arrested for being drunk and disorderly in public. Novel way to spend the early evening 🙄 It was all a bit pitiful really; late middle age couple, bloke clearly alcoholic and not perhaps 100% himself anyway, being pleaded with to leave the NHS Walk-In Centre by 2 policemen, who eventually […]

I’m sitting up and waiting to be able to take my next lot of painkillers for an increasingly gungy throat so i might as well blog. Have been utterly unnerved by something and don’t feel brave enough to take my normal painkillers, so am making do on nurofen. For a few months, i’ve had occasional […]

www.flickr.com I didn’t take a single photo at Melrose this year. However, in a mutually beneficial arrangement (in all other senses other than the fact their camera died) the FamilyFrench took over ownership of my camera for the week and the result is bountiful and beautiful photos of the week. I’ll do a proper update […]

Perfect party for Maddy and SB today. So lovely to see so many friends and they all seemed to have a lot of very high energy, high sugar fun 😆 Maddy was thrilled and is delighted with all her presents; she has packed her new bag with dollies, pens, books and hairstuff and fallen asleep […]

This morning was a blur… Fran was practising skipping, Maddy and i read several more books together, Amelie was playing Cbeebies. We were supposed to get to Tesco but didn’t quite manage it. The afternoon was good, we went to Activity World and there were several new faces there, which was excellent. Maddy was overjoyed […]