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(1) Star: What colour are my toes? Me: [Looks] Red. Star: Do you know why they are red? Me: No. Nail varnish? Star: No. It's felt tip [m...

One of my Christmas gifts this year was a nice, thick bound notebook, with a brightly striped cover, that I plan to use as a journal. I love...

Hits ... Maths 2XL (also known as Conquer Maths ) - apart from one brief hiccup a few weeks in, maths with Angel has been painless. What can...

One saint I almost feel I know personally is Saint Thomas of Canterbury. At university I was tutored by the editor of his letters, and her e...

... and with it a rendition of Christmas carols from Star and A-next-door on the Mongolian nose flute (more commonly known as the recorder)....

Our makeshift Advent blundered on until it fell apart more or less totally for the last week ... Mum in hospital, Christmas preparations, si...

Thanks to the BBC's "listen again" facility you can still enjoy these Christmas treats ... Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols...

Little Cherub wishes you all a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS! She isn't quite sure what all the fuss is about, but she thinks wrapping paper tast...

This morning as I drove to Mass our neighbours were three cars in front driving to their Church, and we passed a friend and her family walk...

Last night was Hannukah party time. This has become a favourite annual tradition, when we invite our neighbours over to celebrate Hannukah w...

Mum is doing OK ... not great, but not badly either. She was anaemic and has had blood transfusions which have made her feel a lot better, b...

There is no doubt about it. Little Cherub is a baby who knows her own mind. She has recently discovered food - with an enthusiasm that sugg...

I have just got back from visiting Mum in hospital. [She's a bit down - in a lot of pain, brain-fogged from morphine and not yet out of ...

Mum's surgery is safely over :). I was able to speak to her this evening and she sounded woozy (unsurprisingly!) but herself. Deo gratia...

... a giant, inflatable, illuminated Winnie-the-Pooh, wearing a Santa hat. And I wondered. What would A.A.Milne have thought? Would he be am...

Tevye drove my Mum to hospital today ready for her hip replacement surgery tomorrow. She is 79 and had heart surgery a few years ago, so I ...

Preparations of a different sort are happening on the S/V Mari Hal-O-Jen where Gaudete Sunday will be a very special day . Please join me...

I don't know what the correct collective noun is for babies, but I think "babble" does pretty well! Whatever, the last week ha...

In our mixed bag family festive seasons and holy days tend to pile on top of each other. The girls and I are already knee deep in Advent and...