Before Christmas Dougie complained he was uncomfortable in the bath and that it would be nice to have a bath pillow. So I bought him Soapy Sophie, an Inflatable Bath Buddy. Isn’t she marvellous....
A Christmas Baby
Photo from The Sunday Sun: my nephew second from left. What timing! Just after 3 o’clock Christmas morning, my new nephew, having delayed his arrival for two weeks, decided to make his grand entrance...
Mum’s Gone through the wardrobe again
Just a few more Narnia photos to share with you. I sent a couple off to the local paper yesterday and they are going to publish one of them in a page of readers’...
Mum’s Gone to Narnia…in Lincolnshire
You’d be forgiven for thinking I took these snaps in black and white but no, it was just the usual automatic full-colour setting. There’s an eery fog over everything today, nothing is moving, it’s minus...
When William met Audrey
Who would have thought it: William Wallace and Audrey Hepburn? An unlikely pairing, indeed, but they look very cosy at a party in Lincolnshire in 2004 (or it could be 2003: I have no idea...
Late Entry for the Christmas Number One?
Forgive me for reminiscing yet again about Rory when he was little, but I had to share this gem from our newly-converted DVDs of Rory as a little boy. Following on from his jigsaw session, here...
You shouldn’t have. No really, you shouldn’t…
Yesterday we girded our loins and did the annual pre-Christmas trip to visit my Aunt. I hadn’t seen her since the Summer so was riddled with guilt as she’s over 80, lives on her own and...
I just get a manky carrot…
There’s a big folder in the cupboard under the stairs which holds all of those fabulous Christmas cards and pictures Rory created at primary school. The picture on the left was a collaboration between...