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Kind of a horrible end to the caterpillar saga…. one leaf had yellow eggs on it and they got eaten… they must have been aphid eggs of some sort and when they hatched they mauled the caterpillars – they seemed to burrow from the inside out – everytime we looked another catty had piles of […]
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*Note to self* When sending 5 year old out to veg patch to collect more broccoli leaves for ever more “tremor”-like caterpillars, it is important to suggest one or two leaves from each plant… as opposed to stripping two plants completely bare…… My word, the balls of poo are getting big……
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We had a really nice day today. First i dropped the kids off at the playgroup summer club – they are going two days this week, two next and two the week after. The i took Bubba into town and got her her first shoes – i hadn’t intended actually buying any – i was […]
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Well – its been a lovely weekend.. although some sleep wouldn’t go amiss! We’ve seen great gran, been slidy dancing (ice skating), been to our town park which is gorgeous and full of beautiful trees, done some “stuff” and i pulled up everything in the front garden.One of the things Pud and I did was […]
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Weyhey! the comments work! Lovely lovely sarah! :~)
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Identifying caterpillars. What sort of caterpillar is this? Oh yes… we have caterpillars… we don’t know WHAT caterpillars… but we have them. We have two types, one is velvety green and a cabbage white, the other i don’t know… its lime green with a yellow stripe on its back and black spots. AND my goodness […]
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Miss Saigon Bit of a rambling post this i suspect… but there is a point, sort of, to it! A couple of weeks ago i had an email from a very good school friend who i went on to drama school with and shared a flat with for a year. Drama school didn’t really work […]
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Things are better today. Bubba was awake most of the night but is asleep right now so we are “doing stuff” – currently we are constructing a pictorial family tree of Henry VIII which we are enjoying and Pud is sat on the floor copying the names of all the wives and children on to […]
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Majority of this is from a post to the mudpud list – its too much to type it all again – makes me cry :~( Thought our experience over the last 24 hours was worth a cautionary tale. Obviously it rare, but after talkingto the nurses today, its not THAT rare and i would hate […]
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I’ve been humming and haa-ing for ages about whether to accept a place at the only dedicated local nursey school for Moo for ages. They are excellent with autism which was a plus but could only offer an afternoon place which was going to mess up Puds day terribly. It also meant removing her from […]
