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The Last Supper

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Just a quick post to say I’m just about to have my last supper in the UK for a while, though, a visit in December is being mooted. This last month has gone really fast, mostly because we spent it running around doing fun stuff with the kids.

Tomorrow I attempt to sit in a [...]

Circles

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

No, I’m not referring to the Drum n’ Bass track by Adam F, but the fact that Ollie has suddenly got into circles in a big way. He calls them ‘Os’. Everything on the picture is his own work apart from the purple pen marks.

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small family barbecue

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

We have been very lucky with the weather this month – pretty much since I moved into mum and dad’s it’s been warm and sunny, so the boys have been outside most of the time.

Today, we decided to have a barbecue, which was a lot of fun!

birthday and watercress

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Yesterday, I walked past a pub where I’d spent my 21st birthday. I was suddenly filled with feelings of guilt when I realised what a horrifically long time ago it was…! All this moaning about how I’m too young to have to knuckle down and behave like a grown-up, well it trurns out, [...]

Guildford paddling pool

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

A long long time ago I worked for Social Services taking kids out for fun days and stuff in the holidays. Somewhere in a dark dusty cupboard in my brain, I remembered a lovely place with a fantastic outdoor paddling pool where we had once taken some of the kids. Somehow, we managed [...]

lastminute tourists

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

As we are about to leave, we decided to rush around doing all the touristy things we wouldn’t have bothered with otherwise. As I said to David, the most comfortable place to be a tourist is in your own patch.

David and I managed to go clubbing thanks to some great friends who got us [...]

bugbear

Monday, June 15th, 2009

I just had to write about this one:

Thomas is bawling his eyes out with real tears, because his best friend, the only friend he really really really loves, has run away from him. Yes, Henry the woodlouse who he met 5 minutes ago, has decided the friendship was really becoming old and stale, and [...]

Littlehampton

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

We are making the best of what feels a bit like a holiday, and of course having a willing extra pair of hands to help with extraordinary activities, so we made it to the beach. It wasn’t the warmest day at the seaside I’ve ever had, but not the coldest either… Thomas was freezing [...]

new haunts…

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

So we’ve spent this first week in Woking, figuring out where to hang out. Thomas has started his playgroup, and loves it, getting impatient if we dawdle on the way there.

Ollie’s had the virus Thomas had last week – you can see his face is puffy:

That picture was taken at the very nearby pub. [...]