Poppy’s first walk

New years eve and it’s time for Poppies first walk.  We took her to Clowes wood (where we normally walk Molly) with Issy and Megan.  We thought it would be a good idea to put her on the extendable lead so she could have a bit of freedom – boy was that a mistake. Put [...]

Boxing Day

Today we had my family around for dinner. Ally spent most of the morning cooking a lovely roast lamb with a forest fruits pavlova for desert. I hoovered and did what I could to help (useless in the kitchen).

For once my Mum and Chris were on time – one minute early even! It was Colin [...]

Christmas Day

Well it’s finally here, Happy Christmas!
Ally half awoke around 6am thinking Megan will wake up soon but then went back to sleep. It was nearly 7.30 before we woke up again and Megan still wasn’t awake! So we woke her up and she jumped into our bed with her stocking from Santa. Funnily enough Santa [...]

Nearly there

Megan has been so excited today, all she has done is run around the house shouting “it’s Christmas tomorrow”. I really wish it was as exciting for me as it obviously is for her.
It’s now Megan’s bedtime and for once she can’t wait. We have left out a mince pie and some milk for Santa [...]

Christmas Eve

Well its now Christmas Eve and I think we are pretty much ready (thanks mainly to Ally). Food bought, Pressies bought and wrapped. I think we have been in Tesco’s at least twice daily every day this week so far and its hell. Yesterday Ally went once to do the big food shop and I [...]

Family get together

Meggie was at her friends  ‘Build a bear’ birthday party today. She loves the Build a bear parties as she gets to choose, stuff and dress a good sized soft toy.  We had one for her sixth birthday and to be honest it really is excellent value for money.
All round Jen’s today for a family Christmas [...]

Trip to the flicks

Went to see a good ol’ British Christmas film at the cinema today called Nativity. This is a comedy starring Martin Freeman (of office fame), Ashley Jenson (from Extras) and Alan Carr.  Issy and Ellie had gone to their Nan and Grandads wedding (they were re-taking their vows – very sweet) so it was Just Ally, [...]

Snow

Well after all of the heavy snow and gale force wind warnings we got about 1 inch of snow with drifts of maybe 2 inches.  Bah humbug!

Ally is feeling really rough today with no sleep so I got Meggie ready for school (her last day today). Before school Meggie had a quick play in the snow whilst I de-snowed [...]

Father Christmas Video

Was given an excellent link to a site where you enter the name and details of your child and upload a photo. They then produce a video staring them. Brilliant and it was free. The site is called Portable North Pole.

Our video for Megan can be seen here but I’m not sure how long they [...]

Weather Station

I’ve always been fascinated by the weather and a couple of years ago I bought myself a semi-pro weather station (geeky I know). Whilst this had been installed I only had the display panels on the wall showing me the data so today I installed the weather logging software from Ambient. This logs and Analise’s [...]

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