Life etc

Every Tuesday for the last couple of terms Mum has been taking Amelia to a music class over in Canterbury. It’s singing and dancing and so on for little kids. Both Mum and Amelia...

Today there was so much rain! I haven’t got a huge amount to say today, but I found this poem which I like so here it is: I dwell in Possibility – A fairer...

A strange thing happened to me over the last 8 months or so. I forgot why we are living in this house. I forgot that we love it because it’s quirky. For some reason...

Paul and Christina have just left for home after a little pizza, a little Katamari and a lot of cutting and folding. We have been working on Christina’s packaging for some of her Blythe...

Today was a day spent cleaning and working but we finished with a walk to the park after an early dinner. Late Spring with it’s long days is very nice indeed. Late Spring, long...

Blogging every day of the month is proving to be an interesting challenge. Today, for example, we have had a playdate, a weekly shop at the supermarket, a messy house to tidy before our...

I have just escaped a very noisy dinner table. Oh my aching ears! Amelia was shouting her latest round of nonsensical jokes, Lily was screeching and Big-P was trying to distract her with a...

Yesterday I took my two little girls to Mum and Dad’s for our weekly family lunch. Amelia played computer games and Lily slept. Six months ago I was enormously pregnant and living in a...

I can’t believe that our house has become even noisier – already. Amelia has always loved to talk – big long sentences either staggeringly wise for such a small person or wandering and nonsensical....

It’s raining heavily and Big-P is in the kitchen making Spicy Bean Stew and Sausages from the River Cottage Family Cookbook for dinner. It is one of my favourite dishes and it’s just perfect...