Braving the sales

We have noticed recently that Handsome seems to have suddenly got to a place in his life where he owns practically no trousers that fit him. As a result, he has been wearing trousers belonging to his younger brother, which makes him look like a regular orphan of the storm, with the bottoms of his [...]

The Writer’s Tale

My mother gave me ‘The Writer’s Tale’ by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook for Christmas, and I started reading it a couple of days ago. It’s an account of a year in the creative process of Russell T Davies, told through a series of e-mails between the authors. It’s a very honest account, bones [...]

Bird man

When GG and I had a day out in Bath, we saw this guy doing the ‘living statue’ act, and although I’ve seen loads of these now, this one stood out due to the pigeon which sat quite happily on his shoulder, even when the ’statue’ started moving. We stood watching the pigeon for longer [...]

Pre-empting verbal abuse

So, yesterday I was glumly inspecting the contents of my food store. I realised that we have a small chocolate mountain accruing, which concerns me. You see, to eat and eat over Christmas is acceptable, some might say expected, but to carry this sort of food consummation on into the new year would simply be [...]

Another (slightly worrying) thought for the day from my four year old son!

So, we were all snuggled up together this morning having a cwtch (Welsh for cuddle, for those of you not in the know, but such a lovely word!) when Cheeky, my younger son said this to me;
Mummy, if you’re ever arrested by the police, don’t worry too much about it; I’ll come and kick the policemen [...]

Boxing Day on the farm

On Boxing Day, in order to give Jo and B the chance to spend some time with their family, we agreed to do the afternoon pig and chicken feed. When we saw the weather we were glad that we were doing it. It was a glorious day, crisp if not deep and even! The sky [...]

On London, Hamlet and my blog silence for two weeks

I have been noticeably absent from my blog for nearly two weeks! For that I apologise and I will do my best to fill you in on what I’ve been up to.
Today is the first day on which I can relax with an easy conscience in quite a while, given that I took on a [...]

Another Christmas song (maybe not one for the children!)

So, back before Christmas I told you about my youngest son’s attempt to sing an unknown Christmas carol, with the most unlikely words. Well, his vocabulary is excellent for someone his age but he does make funny slips sometimes, and whilst singing ‘Jingle Bells’ he had one such slip. He can’t read yet, although he [...]

Our Christmas card crafting

  

For a start, these are three cards made by Handsome. He was very proud of himself (and rightly so, I think!) as this was his first attempt at any form of stitching. They were all very well received. I found the template at this website.
  
These two were made by Cheeky. The tree card was made out [...]

A Christmas Carol for our time

Courtesy of Cheeky, my four year old son;
Thank you, Enemy Father,
Lemon, Vitamin C
…..
!!!!!
He has been singing this, much to our amusement and to the accompaniment of the laughter of our whole family, for the last week and a half! We have no idea whether it is supposed to be a real hymn, or whether he [...]