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So much for saying last week that we’d be doing more this week! Half term bought with it awful weather, a miserable virus that gave everyone coughs and temperatures [and runny noses], and we hardly got out at all… This week has got to be better, right?
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Last weekend, we had the pleasure of travelling to London to spend time in the company of the terribly talented, award-winning author and illustrator duo, Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. They’re collaborators of some of our favourite stories, including their newest book, Jinks & O’Hare Funfair Repair. We were in fact awaiting our delivery of that…
I love the bedrooms in our house. My bedroom in particular has the most beautiful light flowing through it and it’s where I take most of my photographs. But, as with most things in life, you have to take the rain with the sunshine. And at this time of the year, the sunshine is actually…
I can’t remember a time when my cupboards have been less stuffed with plastic carrier bags than now thanks to trolley bags. On average I think we used around 20 bags a week – and with the introduction of the 5p charge that would be costing me at least £1 a week. It would be –…
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Cross-legged on the floor, rifling through my parents’ huge box of photographs I began to wonder. There are hundreds of sepia, black and white and polaroid photographs of around a decade and a half of holiday memories. Memories made here in England, on our green and pleasant land. Windbreaks and wellyboots, camping or caravanning, we…
…and that’s because we’re noisy out back! Enjoy the weather whilst it lasts! We set up our pool bar… Even Excalibur has indulged a little… Mostly the boys have been torturing Dadda in the paddling pool… We’ll be back after Silent Sunday…
Usually when the postman arrives, he comes bearing toy review boxes. This week, he came with two very sturdy, very interesting looking parcels for the boys, from Mrs. Wordsmith. Now sit tight, because this is going to be a long one. I’ve realised more and more over the summer holidays that despite no longer being…