I started clearing out baby clothes today. Not something i’m going to find particularly easy i don’t think, today i didn’t even get as far as the really precious stuff and it made me cry. Even if i come to some kind of sad settlement within myself that number 5 will never happen, i think […]

I’ve started reading Lemony Snicket. Saturday was a wind down day, pleasently spent, after Max and i had cleaned the house, in the company of the Clarkes. I’ve really enjoyed spending more time with Sarah, the kids seem to have reinforced some friendships. Max and Steve seem to have enough in common to get on […]

We’ve had our “year off”, it was about this time last year that i decided that anything that got learned over the next year was a bonus. As such, its been a reasonably successful year but its not been a specially coherent year and i do like things to feel like they have some mildly […]

Things (actual things, not people) i missed about Peterborough. Wireless broadband all the time. Um…. that’s it. Exit stategy here we come.

Its never good to be blogging at this time is it? I’m hovering downstairs, being kept awake by my 3rd ankle injury of the week. Dunno what i’ve been doing to myself, but i fear i might have to put it down to being unused to hills. If you can call a slightly sloping tarmaced […]

Catching up; life without broadband is occasionally complex but rather liberating 🙂 Yesterday had a different feel but was nonetheless pleasant. We pottered in the morning, took Fran and Abbie to the museum for a workshop in the pm (while Max took the others to do a museum box) and then went to Exmouth in […]

Yesterday was the kind of Saturday that could fill my life and i’d be perfectly and completely happy. We had a garden day, with 2 BBQ’s and a whole heap of people i love milling around. First of all BIL and SIl with their girls, then the Clarkes with their brood and a bit of […]

Today’s main attraction (aside of course from the Portico) has been the trip to Killerton (how glad am i that i got NT member!) for their Pirate day. What a fantastic afternoon – excellently done pirate trail which the kids (and i) adored and charged around like maniacs, hooting at all the silliness and talking […]

So said Amelie at the end of a fairly long stint at said museum. 🙄 She is pretty much fine today; after crawling into my room in the early hours, she has walked and walked fine, for most of the day. It started bleeding this evening and one of the butterfly stitches has come off, […]