Posted in Family Life on Aug 30th, 2010
My Father in Law is about to celebrate a momentous birthday. We really struggle with gifts, knowing that often what we are able to give falls far short of what we want to give. We thought long and hard about giving him a birthday treat which would be truly exciting before hitting on a trip [...]
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Posted in Family Life on Aug 21st, 2010
Each evening before bed we peer around our children’s door to make sure they are ok, as I’m sure you do too. Sometimes they need their covers settling over them or turning around from some contorted sleeping position. Last night when we checked, Milla was gone. Mr Kat came out of their room and said [...]
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Posted in Family Life on Aug 19th, 2010
Posted in Family Life, Food on Jul 2nd, 2010
Our enthusiasm for the garden is still strong since we began sorting it out in the Spring. We did go for a ready to plant garden from Rocket Gardens (although they were out of rocket so will have to plant my own!). They sent a sample garden to give to a friend, ours was very [...]
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Posted in Family Life on May 16th, 2010
Every day when we walk through the village spotting the bluebells Milla says to me: “And maybe Mama, we could go to the bluebell woods?” but for one reason or another there is always something else we are supposed to be doing. We seem to be busy all of the time these days. So busy [...]
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