My friend Faith wrote this post on her Household Diary blog listing ten things for which she is grateful. It inspired me to do the same. I...

Marie is now part way through her GCSE exam year at school (exams taken at the end of what in the US would be the sophomore year of high sch...

1. We have had a relaxed family Christmas. Tevye, Helen and myself don't go back to work until January so we are getting a long break an...

I posted back in the summer about Helen being offered an apprenticeship . It seemed an exciting opportunity but in the end it never came to ...

I think it will take a post each to fill in the gaps since I last blogged for myself and the girls (not so much has been going on with Tevye...

The weather ... average December weather. Not too cold, sometimes damp and grey, sometimes not. There were a couple of very wet, windy and ...

I will write some proper catch up posts later, but for now a few snippets ... 1. Marie and I have been doing pre-Christmas things. We went t...

Yes, I am still alive. No, I have not forgotten about my blog. Yes, I do still want to keep blogging, I just somehow got out of the habit. T...

The weather ... Ugh! It feels as though it has gone from August to November in four days. Thursday was a glorious hot summer day. Today? W...

Ridiculous overuse of Instagram filters here, but I was having fun! Here are some pictures which give a taste of our week in Dorset. Playing...

The weather ... still thinks it is summer, not that I will see much of it as I went back to work today and more autumnal weather is forecas...

Yes, I am still here! The weather ... beautiful late summer weather, warm and mostly sunny. Perfect as we are spending the week in a carava...

The weather ... Wet and miserable today, which is a shame as I was not working and had planned to take Rose to the zoo. We went swimming in...

The weather ... has been very warm and humid. We had heavy rain on Saturday evening which has left it cooler and less sticky. We are lucky ...

Sometimes this seems to be the only way I can blog. Time is at a premium at the moment as I slog through this last module of my course. Reco...

The weather ... where is summer? I'm tired of being cold. When the sun comes out it is nice enough, but as soon as it disappears it get...

Helen has been offered a job! Or more accurately, an apprenticeship. In the UK most 18 year olds with the right qualifications move on to un...

I promised some pictures from Rose's birthday, then realised that I can't post most of them as they show other people's children...

The weather ... Lovely when the sun comes out, chilly when it doesn't. Feels more like early May than June. I am wearing ... black and...

1. The view from my Kindle at the lakeside park on Monday. 2. The moment before a certain daughter realised her tongue had frozen to the ice...