*rolls entire head in preparation for this story!* We’ve had 2 cousins here for a few days (with parents) and before they left today Maddy took them out into the garden to play with the rabbits. The rest of us were inside; Lou and i had been chatting covering, among other things, the extent to […]

Despite my moaning, the run up to Christmas was nothing like as bad as last year, but it did seem to go on a long time; i spent the last 2 days manning the phone and email from home and organising last minute fixes for problems/lost items/wrongly sent/wrongly ordered bits and bobs. Considering we were […]

I never got round to decent photos of this before so here are some views of the girls’ rooms now that they are all finished. As they got a good clean and tidy this weekend (the rooms, not the kids, though it wouldn’t hurt to wash them either!), it seemed an appropriate moment to take […]

A couple of years ago i got some new glasses, but didn’t really find they helped all that much after the initial “oooh, that’s a bit better” and after a while i gave up wearing them. (Josie also tore the arm off them and i sat on a pair, neither of which helped.) Today i […]

There hasn’t been a great deal to report here over the last couple of weeks really. I can’t tell you much about the kids cos i haven’t really seen them and when i have it has mainly been either flopping on the sofa or getting in late and discovering that despite being at home all […]

First decorations up. 2 years. Same candle lit and same tears cried. It won’t ever get any better on this day. It isn’t the lighting it that makes me cry, it’s blowing them out.

I’ll preface this by saying that i am extremely, but extremely grateful for how well the business has done this year, that i know exactly how lucky we are to have a thriving business, customers who come back, friends and family who support us, buy from us, help us and on top of that, in […]