I am a bit in love with this, it’s going to be my first ever business christmas card 🙂

Mother can keep birth a secret. Now, the father bit i don’t know anything about really, so i won’t presume to comment but what business is it of anyones to try and force an adult woman to tell her parents about a baby if she doesn’t want to? AM i missing something? And what has […]

Dunno what happened there, though the incoming DEFCOM 5 alerts by text were funny! Thanks to Sir Bean-a-lot for fixing it 🙂 I’m building up to a blog; in-between being mentally busy we are having a really lovely time. BM is hugely busy; it has already beaten last years total November sales for all sales […]

Telegraph Article on the pressures of modern family life. She has my every sympathy; 4 children (well, any number of children but as Alison and i often say, you do spend a bloody long time saying the same thing over and over when you have 4!) is hard going and pretty much unrelenting. Interesting to […]

The first couple of weeks of Max being at home and extra 3 days a week have gone pretty well in retrospect, though we’ve both been thoroughly ill which took the shine off it a bit. I had a horrible dose of laryngitis and i’m still croaky nearly 2 weeks later but the worst of […]

Typically, our first week of being at home together is being marred by me having a throat infection; it started off as viral which made a nice change as my glands swelled beautifully but my tonsils stayed the same size for a change, so while it hurt, it was a different hurt and nothing like […]

Max played school teacher this morning and had them all mathsing and doing dictation while i parcelled as MF doesn’t do tuesdays. It was funny 😆 I got lots done. Then, this afternoon, we all went out to Burghley House and spent the afternoon in the Sculpture Gardens, really lovely and peaceful. Gorgeous weather, lots […]

I’m so silent that anyone left probably thinks we’ve had some (another) terrible crisis, but mostly we’re actually just fine, having a nice time and very busy indeed. I still want to write up our french holiday but in short, here are a few things that have happened. * Fran’s operation to finish her cleft […]

… i’ve got so behind on blogging that i wouldn’t know where to start. We’re having a very odd time just now, which started pretty much instantly we got back from our truly excellent and enjoyable holiday with Chloe, Michelle and Marcus. I will blog it, even though Michelle already has. Home educating is actually […]

I’ve now got, somewhat to my surprise, 3 readers, more or less. I say surprise, because i was confidently expecting Amelie to do the ‘sometime between 7 and 8’ thing that the elder 2 have done, becasue i’d got to the point of assuming that either that was genetically or socially normal for my children, […]