Posted in Blah, Life on December 31, 2006 | 8 Comments »
On the whole I don’t think I will be too sorry to see the back of 2006.
Some good stuff happened:
Little’un turned two in July and continues to be amazing, clever, beautiful and funny.
BabiesEverywhere and Deckchair produced the beautiful Babychair in August.
Pewari and I finally met up after 20-odd years.
Sibling 1 turned 30 and to celebrate [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, Things not do do... on December 29, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Expect them to understand that just because they got presents on 25th December, that doesn’t mean that they will get presents on 26th, 27th, 28th…
Posted in Flickr, Photo, Wheel of the Year on December 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Roll up, roll up, come and join in the fun…
It’s Wheel of the Year time again. Come and join me. Please. I’m very lonely at the moment. Just me, myself and I.
Click here to find out more…
Posted in Blah, Christmas on December 26, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday we ate sprouts, and a shedload of other stuff besides, as one does at this time of year. Sprouts get a bad press in my humble opinion. Lightly steamed so they are still ever so slightly al dente makes them a delicious accompaniment to any meal. The oh-so-British tradition of putting them on to boil [...]
Posted in Christmas on December 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Clicky here
At the time of writing, he has been seen in New Zealand, Australia and Japan
(thanks to Pewari for the link)
Posted in Christmas on December 24, 2006 | 2 Comments »
According to Little’un, we are getting visits tonight from two fairytale entities.
Better leave out two mince pies then.
Posted in Life on December 21, 2006 | 2 Comments »
… with the expletive shouted really loudly.
These were the words that escaped my lips when, precisely one week after I got my car back after someone had driven into it, I was driving to work in The Yorkshireman’s car and someone drove into me. Again.
OK, it was foggy – the peasouper that had seemingly grounded all [...]
Posted in Christmas, Family, Parenting, Things not do do... on December 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
…expect them to be the angel in the nursery nativity play without tears.
Poor Little’un, as soon as she clapped eyes on The Yorkshireman and I in the audience, all rehearsals were forgotten and she just wanted a cuddle from her Mummy and Daddy. She got so distraught she had to be taken out of the [...]
Posted in Blah on December 17, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I got my car back on Thursday – it looks like nothing had ever happened to it. In fact, it’s very clean and shiny now and so in far better shape than it has been for some time.
I can’t fault the insurance company or the body repair shop. Everything went very smoothly [...]
Posted in Christmas, Family, Parenting, Things not do do... on December 12, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Expect them to understand that they can only have one chocolate out of the advent calendar each day.
We have a lovely fabric advent calendar with pockets for each of the days. There is a Santa-on-a-Stick that you can move from pocket to pocket each day and a big pocket for Christmas Day that you can leave [...]
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