Despite being a Radio Two afficionado for, well, ever (did I mention that I have been thirty-something since I was five?) I am often not in the right frame of mind to listen to Sounds of the Sixties on a Saturday morning, not least this morning after walking the halls with Dimples for three hours last night. Instead I turned over to some other channel and found myself listening to the Three Tenors singing Oh Holy Night:It's one of those … [Read more...]
Christmas Countdown Day Three: Toddler Law
Which shall henceforth be known as Toddle-law (see what I did there? It's amazing what you think of when walking the halls with a small child in the wee small hours of the morning.)Toddle-Law Number 3, which states that: any weather is good weather for ice-cream. The need for ice-cream is inversely proportionate to the outside temperature.We didn't get out of the house yesterday because nursery was closed and the snow was too deep to … [Read more...]
Christmas Countdown and Writing Workshop: Frosty the Snowman
I wasn't going to write for the Workshop this week. I only started it recently and thought the prompt of 'Get Lyrical' was a bit too wide. If I start thinking about songs I end up playing a sort of word-association game in my head where one song leads to another song, which leads to a third and before you know it, I'm paralysed by an utter inability to fully commit to one idea. But then came the snow.Last year, the Pocket Dictator wasn't really … [Read more...]
Christmas Countdown: Handprint Cards
Christmas CountdownThe snow has arrived (at last) in the suburbs of South East London* which can only mean that, as usual, it has peaked too soon and the much-fabled White Christmas is another 388 days or so away. In the meantime, now that I have dispensed with yet another birthday, I can get on with the task of being fully prepared for Christmas. Last year, I was heavily pregnant and struggling with SPD that, combined with snowfall, rendered me … [Read more...]
The Gallery: Celebration
This week for The Gallery, we have been challenged with Show and Tell: Celebrations. Initially I thought I'd write about my wedding since it was a) amazing b) beautifully photographed and c) at St Paul's Cathedral. But the pictures are saved to a separate hard drive and I'm too cold to leave the warmth of the blanketed sofa and go and get it. Then I thought I could write about the Girls' Christenings, but that would be a little unfair since most … [Read more...]
Silent Sunday: a birthday at DG Manor
Candles never lie!Taking inspiration from Mocha Beanie Mummy, this post is brought to you in association with Silent Sunday! … [Read more...]
Cork popping: Make Your Own Nativity
I can't remember when I started saving Champagne corks. In our last house we had a lovely big hand-blown glass bowl, bought on the very first holiday that DH and I ever took together, that sat on a table, filled with champagne corks, all of which had a significance. They all bore the date and event at which they were consumed, and I loved adding to them, or plucking one from the bowl, reading the information and remembering the happy event they … [Read more...]
