Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christmas, Daddy, ill, Rafe, Santa on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
His head is warm, his eyes are bright, his cheeks and ears are red.
With three days until Christmas, Rafe is fighting off a nasty bug. Or would be, if I could actually get him to sleep, or eat, or even drink anything…
“Please, daddy dearest, no pictures. It tires me so.”
Despite whatever Gremlins are attacking his [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baking, brownies, Daddy, dead end job, job, kids, mom, packing, park, train, tuna, tv, work, working on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The kids have gone to the park with daddy. The house is completely silent. What shall I do? Read a book? Watch tv? Chores? Pack? Take a nap? Bake some brownies? Ahh. So many choices.
Oh. Wait.
No. None of that. I’ll take a shower, slap on some semi-decent clothes that hopefully aren’t covered in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blackberries, butterflies, countryside, Daddy, depressed, fields, flash earth, grass, grasshoppers, hunters, kids, lake, Lost, mommy, nettles, pictures, poor, Rafe, rowing, Saturday, sheep ticks, walk, woods on July 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Had to get out of the house, so took the kids for a walk over the fields. We’ve been over the fields across the way before, dozens of times. Of course the key thing is that we’ve been over the fields across the way, dozens of times, with Daddy. Daddy, who has the uncanny [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arizona, Daddy, David, england, getting old, headache, long walk, Rafe, scrabble, Solent, Southsea Rose Garden, suburn, sun stroke, Sunday, walk on June 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Being from Arizona I very frequently underestimate the power of the sun in England. Sunburn? In England? Surely not possible!
It is, I assure you. When we left yesterday it was slightly overcast and cool. Grabbing the sunscreen was a thought that never even occured to me. The route I had mapped out for our long [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arizona, baby, bubble wrap, Daddy, David, drowning, fear, husband, lamb, love, pond, pond scum, protect, Rafe, sentence, summer on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My son fell into the pond on Sunday. My little baby lamb. I was watching him, and he was only in the water for a matter of a few seconds before I pulled him out. He coughed and spluttered for a few seconds, and he was covered in pond scum, but he was fine. I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bath, Daddy, ikea, Olivia, what to do on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Me: “Well, we could go to Bath…?”
Olivia: “What? We already have a bath!”
…
Daddy: “Well, I guess that’s put paid to that idea, then!”
….
Me: *sigh* “That’s it- we’re going to Ikea.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birthday, birthday present, books, children, Daddy, games, Jane Eyre, Olivia, scrabble, spring, trivial pursuit, wind, winning, winter on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Howling and blowing. Trees bending and breaking. Waves crashing. Cars slipping.
Less then two weeks until Spring, and winter arrives. Perhaps snow is still on the cards, after all.
Feeling bogged down. Crisis at work, kids homework projects, son being banned from after school clubs, baby turning two, me turning 26, switching bank accounts and it’s a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daddy, debates, Devon, government silliness, I Am Always Right, London, Olivia, photographers, politics on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So the children and I were discussing this latest bit of government silliness over dinner tonight when I asked them when it would be acceptable to “tell on” the people next door for being “odd”. I gave an example of maybe having a bunch of nondescript boxes delivered to their door a few times a [...]
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