Some Facebook status updates from July and August, for the benefit of those of you not on Facebook and for my online archiving: Snippets of...

I mentioned the other day that Cherub is having a lot of fun with Montessori iPad apps. I love the idea of Montessori education for young ch...

The weather ... variable! A nice bright morning today, but on Sunday we went for a BBQ in the woods and got soaked by torrential rain, despi...

... is buying not just one Rainbow Fairy book for Cherub, not just one set of seven, but forty two of the things. The Book People are ...

A few pictures from the the local canal festival Tevye, Cherub and I went to on Saturday. Morris dancers Clog dancers And a rather i...

A day late this week ... The weather  ... hot and sunny, then hot and sticky, now damp and sticky. I am wearing ... cropped summer pyjam...

To add to my Old Fossil post the other day, I thought I would collate the suggestions in the comments and add a few more things that came to...

The weather ... summer! No rain all weekend, sun and temperatures into the 70s. Can it last for a whole week? I am wearing ...  black and ...

Tevye had a conversation with Cherub this morning during which he tried to explain the Berlin Wall to her (not sure how far they got!). It g...

The weather ... ugh! I spent a significant chunk of the weekend playing the trombone in the rain. Enough said. I am wearing ... pyjamas an...

And therefore a bit blurry due to movement and marks on the window. Also taken on my phone trying not avoid pointing towards the sun. My s...

1. So this has been my first full week at work. I am doing well with fitting work into my life, just not there with working and blogging y...

1. Yesterday was my last day at the archive where I have been volunteering for the last year. I am going to miss it. The people were lovely...

The weather ... all over the place. We have had a two day heatwave, thunderstorms, cool dampness, and warm hazy sun over the last week. Thi...

Thank you to eveyone who commented on my Train or Car? post a week or two ago - lots of votes for the train. Well, I made a decision ... ...

There are days when I relish the quirkiness and randomness of family life, and others when I wonder how I ever manage to hold on to a though...

From the archives last week ... a law suit that could have come straight out of Jane Austen or Dickens. I listed over one hundred documents ...

Well, that's a surprise! I had a sense that cell phones in the US are more expensive than in the UK, so I was curious about how the pric...

Yes, I should have posted this on Sunday, but Cherub's card is too cute not to share. All her own work!   (Yes, I know their real n...

The weather ... joy! It is actually looks like summer this morning and may even reach 70 degrees. If we are lucky. Showers forecast for lat...