Angel is now over half way through her GCSE exams (yay!), with the worst - biology, chemistry and physics - behind her. I have been fascinat...

Cherub is getting very excited about her upcoming fifth birthday party. Invitations have been distributed to various little girls at school,...

This Week ... The weather ... grey and windy. I hope the wind is coming from the right direction. There is another erupting volcano in Ic...

Towards the end of their Reception year, children at school get weighed and measured. Cherub, at almost five, is 101.5 cm (40 inches) tall a...

This Week ... The weather ... a cloudy, could-do-anything sort of morning. I am wearing ... mismatched pyjamas. Blue bottom half and pi...

In case you feel your life is not complete without pointy hatted Moldovans: The United Kingdom came 11th put of 25, three points ahead M...

I am on a TV binge tonight, So You Think You Can Dance (dancing talent show), Doctor Who, and now the Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision is...

I enjoy doing these weekly daybooks - they are my online diary, and one day I will print them all out and scrapbook them - but I always stru...

I started seven quick takes yesterday, but never finished them ... so here are a late three instead! 1. Smokey the British Shorthair cat h...

Outside my window ... yet another bright, sunny morning, but with a chilly breeze. Lovely spring weather after the warmest April on record...

And this is why ...   One big advantage of playing in a brass band is that they will provide instruments for players who don't have t...

  1. I love, love, loved the dress - simple and elegant, with that gorgeous lace. Though the BBC's description of the 2.7 metre trai...

I have a load of photos stacked up from various trips over the last month that I have been meaning to post. This batch made it as far as a d...

Outside my window ... bright and sunny. Again. This has been the warmest Easter I have ever known and is set to be the warmest April on re...

In his Good Friday homily this afternoon our priest asked what we would think if we came to Church and found a noose, a guillotine, or an el...

Outside my window ... another beautiful morning. I could get accustomed to this! Cooler than it was a week ago and forecast to cloud over t...

  1.  I love the way small children go through phases of fixating on a particular skill they are developing. (Come to think of it I guess t...

Pragmatic Mom is posting a list of the Top 100 boys in Children's Lit You'd Let Your Daughter Date .  Very fun, although she is muc...

One of my Day Zero Project ideas was to visit seven World Heritage sites that I hadn't been to before. I was checking the official list ...

Outside my window ... a beautiful morning, with blue skies and newly green trees. We have had a few days of weather that is more like su...