Amelie lost her first tooth last night; rather impressively she has recently been sporting a shark like double row of teeth, having fully grown adult teeth behind still fully there baby teeth. But eventually one has been squeezed out and last night she got to put her first tooth under her pillow As [...]

*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 which [...]

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 wrote this last year but never published it. Funnily enough, the first verse seems almost inappropriate a year on; funny how things can change. Anyway, i  hope you enjoy. I’m off on a trip round all the blogs i haven’t had a chance to read in ages now Happy Christmas.
(With some, not [...]

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 [...]