“I not grumpy, i just Josie.”

I did have a vague plan to declutter the house and educate children yesterday but the children very definitely had other ideas and then when the delivery arrived, so did i! Fortunately, having already done more than enough stuff to satisfy any wandering educational expert (Fran refused an offer from me to cut short her […]

We spent Wednesday with the Beans, celebrating SB’s 6th birthday; a jolly nice time was had by all and it was lovely to see T-bird, Katy, NattyEm and others too. I was extremely tired and definitely a bit discontected; i was certainly aware of it and i’m sure other people were too. Sorry about that […]

ooooooh – i could crush a grape 🙂

… it’s wasting time and sympathy on someone who seems to deserve it, only to discover that perhaps they didn’t deserve my pity after all. It seems to happen such a lot. I really must be more cynical 😕

To rival batbaby, we have Baby Jasmine 🙂 and then of course we have Amelie and her geomag roses 🙄 (I’m sure the Portico children don’t make roses with their geomags… i just don’t know where i went wrong, i really don’t!) 😆 Today we had a playing morning while i had an extremely long […]

This is the ultimate in illustrations of an expanding business; these files are, from left, copies of my sales invoices from 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07. We’ve run out of space in the 2006-07. When i look at it like that, it really is quite extraordinary 🙂 However, they are all now out of my […]

Maddy Moomin’s Muddles Maddy has narrated and blogged her story; I’ll add the storyboard later too; (when i find the camera charger! 🙄 )

A bright sunny day makes all the the difference, doesn’t it? 🙂 Especially when you get an hour off to go cycling in it, which made me very happy indeed. The headwind was a bit brisk, and i forgot my gloves, but the amount of work my legs were doing warmed me up plenty 🙂 […]

… wake up till 12pm 😯 I’ve not be able to lie in (in the proper sense of being midday style slovenly) for ages; in fact, it was just about the only indication i had that i was pregnant last year, becasue i suddenly slept in til 10am for 2 days running. And since then, […]