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Play time at Granny’s house – Gallery

August 2, 2010 By Ellen

Tara’s Gallery this week has the fun-filled suggestion playtime as its theme. Here I am hot-foot from a weekend at Granny’s where her smallest grandsons had a fine old time. Among the fine feasts, stories and compulsory helpings of fresh air there were jigsaws, wind-up snails, sofa safaris, tractors and wheelbarrow rides. So far so […]

Filed Under: family, gallery, play, Tara's Gallery

July – phew what a scorcher!

August 2, 2010 By Ellen

July began with a proper scorcher on our Turkish adventure, continued at a blistering pace with other travels and outings and skidded to a halt with a Significant anniversary. Here’s a little look at the things I’ve learned this month. The train really does take the strain. We flew the four and a half hours […]

Filed Under: brother, family, month, other things I have learned

Not wordless Wednesday… but speechless

July 21, 2010 By Ellen

Shame on you London Sealife Aquarium for this notice in the lift. At £34 for Boys One, Three and I to have a wander around, I expect better. No fault with the fish, but I hope to get good spelling from somewhere that purports to be educational. And now Boy One has seen your film […]

Filed Under: family, spelling, things I learned from my children today, Wordless Wednesday, wordy wonders

How a chocolate pudding changed my life…

July 20, 2010 By Ellen

Decluttering Diary: some time later. I had one of those moments last week. Actually I’d go as far as to say it was an epiphany. And it was down to my sister-in-law Lovely L. There we were after a splendid supper in her new gaff. We’d scoffed well, roast lamb with rosemary followed by a […]

Filed Under: decluttering, decluttering diary, family

Nuts in may? Au contraire fairly sane and quite chipper

June 1, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned in May.You can’t keep a climber downBoy Three is already following in his brother’s footsteps and showing a tendency to clamber, climb and generally get up places he shouldn’t. I watched him push – and remember he can’t walk unaided yet – a side table up to the bookcase, then climb onto […]

Filed Under: family, month, other things I have learned

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