Oh dear…

Haven’t done very well with the MarBlo thing at all – well, actually started off brilliantly, but seem to have tailed off a bit over the last week or so.
Will do better in April! Especially as the theme is LETTERS and I already have a good idea of what I want to do.
And I’ve signed [...]

Still snowing

Cold, very windy and downright unpleasant. Snow in spring is not a good thing (ooh, that rhymed!).
It keeps melting a bit, going all slushy and making the fields we walk Izzy through a nightmare of mud and puddles. And then it gets cold , everything freezes, and it snows again.
I’m ready for spring now, I’ve [...]

Bad Idea

Do you think it might be a Bad Idea to have applauded with delight every time Henry pulled out the plug while we were vacuuming today? Because now he might think that that is a good thing. Which obviously it isn’t, it’s actually going to be rather annoying very soon. But today, today it was [...]

Illustrators

A list! Of some of my favourite illustrators:
 
Lisa Evans
 
Francisca Bustamante
 
Helen Rhodes
 
Laura Freeman
 
Mary Claire Smith
 
Lucy Grossmith

Good Friday

Or not so good, as I’m still feeling rather unwell (we can add unbelievable dizziness to the usual blocked nose, sore throat and cough, which sort of makes things a bit more interesting).
But, it’s Easter, so of course I want to talk about bunnies:
last week, the local dog-walking community was a-buzz when Lea stuck her [...]

2tired

too. tired. to. post.
must sleep.
[sound of eyelids gently closing...]

Cut off from the world!

For some stupid reason we have had no internet connection for the last three days. Words have been exchanged with our provider. They were not the kind that you would use in front of children.
Anyway, I’m back online now – hooray! – and will be backdating the posts which I wrote in that time but wasn’t [...]

Things I Ordered from England

Whenever we get visitors from the UK, there are certain things I always ask them to bring over.
This time, I got:

marmite

extra mature cheddar cheese

a ham (to be baked for Easter breakfast)

Sainsbury’s Magazine (collected for me by my mum over the last few months)

Country Living magazines (I have a subscription, but it goes to my parents’ [...]

Invasion!

Currently visiting: my parents, my sister, her partner and their daughters (aged 5 and almost 1).
Add this to our household of: me, my dh, Henry and our dog, and you get quite a lot going on.

Babyless Buggy

Walking along today with the dog and an empty buggy, I kept wanting to stop every person we passed and explain I hadn’t lost my baby, I was in fact borrowing a buggy for my niece who is coming to stay, and I was borrowing it from someone who happens to live near enough that [...]