School quiz night, always good fun, but can you guess what had just happened?

A sea horse looking for his mate?

Perhaps inspired by masterchef which is on the TV at the moment, or perhaps it is the junior Kenwood that Alexei got for Christmas, my two youngest are very keen on helping out in the kitchen these days. However, we don’t often get that much time to cook together. The other day, as I was […]

Devastated to find my beloved Tom dead this morning. So thankful that he looked unharmed and in tact – just lying there peacefully, so I guess it was a heart attack in old age. He will be greatly missed, not least by brother Charlie; they have seen me through most of my adult life – […]

The last post on Alexei’s birthday – all his cards! What a popular little boy. Now to get back to some sort of normality…….

And the finished cake for Alexei’s birthday party. Thought he would be happy, but he was not impressed that the Peppa Pig and George were not made of icing!! A hard boy to please. he was happy with his party thankfully.

Happy 4th birthday little Alexei – what a fun day you have had. I am glad to see that out of all the presents you received, a little George pig is your favourite! Looking forward to your party tomorrow. Remember we love each other.

Finally, after more than a month of grubbiness, we have a clean house! More importantly, a sparkling bathroom, which had deteriorated in cleanliness after our cleaner had taken a long, extended Christmas break and with recent tiling work done on our shower. Even the Bubble Buzz’s looked happy and ready to defend their position! Wish I […]

As assignment day, canal side at The Oracle, Reading. A miserable day, but at least the rain held off whilst we were there, though the skies remained grey throughout. I am not sure which photo I will end up working on, but I quite like this framing shot, after playing around in Lightroom with downloaded […]