Archive for February, 2007

Don’t waste your words

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

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 [...]

An expanding business

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

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 hair, [...]

Maddy’s Blog.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

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

Spring shaped… i think perhaps so.

Monday, February 26th, 2007

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 [...]

Sunday, i don’t…

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

… 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, [...]

Tootle tootle.

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Much like last year, well, the beginning of it, the girls seem largely content with a diet of skill gathering and story based information at the moment. The Antartica thing was nice and has captured their imagination briefly, but i think having explored the basics of the geography and some map work, the animals, the [...]

You know i said thrice pah?

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Well today would be thrice argh!
I’ve had a hugely entertaining day, spending my time and irritatingly my own money, making calls to sort out the cock ups of three separate companies.
First off was the letter from Royal Mail in answer to MY letter asking why they hadn’t changed the address of my home, [...]