That Friday feeling

DH had taken the day off and we are heading out ‘en famille’ to the Kent Coast for the weekend. Walks on the beach with the Wonder Hound and al fresco lunches are on the cards (albeit swathed in fleecey fabrics) for we three and the Pocket Dictator. DH is riding high after a work-related [...]

Something for the weekend

We have friends coming to visit this weekend: they are staying in the room that will at some point in the relatively near future belong to the Pocket Dictator. She will be getting the upgrade to allow Babydeux free and full use of the nursery which is smaller and (more importantly) has an interconnecting door [...]

Fan mail

I’ve not been back blogging that long but already someone has seen fit to bestow an award upon me. I figure Peggy has just run out of good people to award things to but, hey, I’ll take it where I can get it. Thanks Peggy! A conditional requirement of the honour is that I [...]

Desk work

I am the proud owner of a new (to me, anyway. Yet another eBay purchase.) desk and matching chair. DH has, begrudgingly, made space for it in the nerve centre that is the study, now that the Pocket Dictator* has discovered the laptop. More than discover the laptop, she is some kind of child-genius [...]