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snow

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

yoo-hoo!  I’m over here!  Yep - that’s right - here!  See!  I’m back :-)

We’ve been flat out with winter school holidays and friends staying that the rest of the every day world just slipped on by.  The best bit of the last week has been our first adventure to the snow.  It’s not far from [...]

the bathroom floor quilt and a silly little brown sausage

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

What * a * day!  I work Wednesdays at the bookstore so this morning it was a busy round of school lunches, porridge, bed-making, doggy breakfasts, tidying kitchen, stacking dishwasher, washing darks, and hanging out school blouses before farewelling the doggles, who spend their day in the back garden, and heading up the road to [...]

so glad we did

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Sunday morning
Julian: “Shall we go for a drive and picnic in the country tomorrow?”
Lily: “Oh yes, that’s a lovely idea.  I’ll prepare the picnic.”

Sunday night
Julian:  “Shall we go for a drive and picnic in the country tomorrow?”
Lily: “Yep, I’ll make the picnic in the morning.”

Monday 9am
Julian: “Are we going for a drive and picnic?”
Lily: “Yeah, [...]

sun day

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

The cold has gone.  The boot is off.  The sun is shining.  There’s nothing to do but sit in the back garden with Abby and soak up the loveliness.

I clip her toenails and brush her hair - it must be an evolutionary thing - a muma monkey grooming her bub (Abby will love that!) -  [...]

a mother’s day

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

I celebrated my first mother’s day - as a mumma - 12 years ago.  Abby was a wee five month old who slept reasonably well at night, but stayed awake ALL DAY.  That was tiring.
Julian was away - can’t remember where or why - and Abby and I spent the morning and lunch in with [...]

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