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We've got good news, and bad news.
So says Taya, apropos of Ben & Holly's.The good news, Taya has been given a temporary nursery place! She does two full days a week. I skip home and enjoy doing the housework in near silence (major...
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Not much to report
Just plodding along. Forever plodding, sometimes power walking up the bridge, always with the buggy, always late.This is the kind of reason why I am always late.Anyway. I have been christmas shopping,...
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When you become a parent, no one tells you the following things may happen.Your child may refuse to go to bed, night after night for months. This may vary from mild objection to outright defiance....
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2012 so far
I definitely want to blog more often this year. It's easy for weeks to pass by without documenting anything and hard to find the time when the list of WIPs is as long as my arm and the flat doesn't...
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All the good things about Brooke
Especially for Cuckoo, but also for Brooke when she's older. The best things about Brooke are: Her gappy front teeth. The way she tells me she loves me about 20 times a day. And occasionally follows...
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To have loved and lost
First, way back when, it was my great-grandma, Amy. Just the fact of it, she was dead. I don't remember anything else of it.Then my Grandma. A tannoy announcement telling me to get off the train at...
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I have an announcement...
We have Big News.Young Brooke, of the aforementioned slapping, throttling etc., has changed her errant ways! Her stint in the countryside with her Godmother and god-cousins seems to have turned the...
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Days out
It feels like forever we've stayed at home, watching a lot of DVDs, baking and pottering. I love to potter, but I think sometimes that is my default mode rather than making the most of this rather...
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Look!
Look at me, blogging away in the daytime, with a cup of coffee, the same track on repeat on itunes... ALL BY MYSELF at home! Yes, it is indeed my birthday and I have been given the gift of Home Alone...
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Days Out A-Plenty
God bless London. We've been lapping it up, all the gloriously free things to do in this magnificent city. Taya and I are doing a guide book tour of the best sights and boring everyone to death on...
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All the good things about Taya
Well it would be rude not to, wouldn't it?So here are the best things about Taya, my youngest who is 2.Firstly, she is bonkers. Proof:Eats blu tacEats egg shell knowingly and says she likes itLicks...
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Everywhere and Everything
Ah my poor abandoned blog. Sorry about that. The last few weeks have felt fuller than usual. Even the stuff I do all the time seems to have taken up more time. Anyone else get that? I don't really have...
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More gadding about town and injuries
Last Thursday evening I got a text; "Don't panic, we're at A&E".So said Chris after Taya broke away from him on the scooter and went full pelt down the ramp to the subway at Edgware Road and...
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Making the most of it.
We'd just been to Regent's Park yesterday (the playground with the curly whirly slide was where Brooke wanted to go) with Alyssa. We were heading back but Chris had to take Alyssa home and I was...
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Not so much Christopher Robin and Alice.
This may be disjointed as I can really only remember what happened based on the photos on my phone. Here's what I clicked this past week or two.Here we are at the lido in Hyde Park, in the rain. Taya...
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Some crochet
Ahhh crochet. I do love it. I'm not as fast as some people, I'm rather prone to making cushions and questionable colour choices and having far too many projects on the go, but I love it. Those moments...
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That was the summer
It's been so long since I last posted that every time I've thought about updating I've pushed the thought away because to recap all that has happened would take more time than I have to spare. Double...
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More summer fun
I know, I know, it's October now and summer is long gone, but since I now have these morning hours to myself, here I am thinking back to warmer months. We spent so much time out and about. Still in...
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Ashdown Park Hotel and an inappropriate photo.
A letter giving us permission to travel on South East trains without tickets? A driver with a sign bearing our name at the station? An overnight stay at a beautiful country hotel? For free?OH GO ON...
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Who is the President of France?
Things that have been thrown down our basement steps since we moved in:A cup of coffee (Starbucks)An enormous variety of wrappers from cigarettes, sweets, snacks etc. A drug dealer's stashA £10 noteTwo...
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