Daily Life

A Christmas round up

Christmas is over and we are all blobbing about like overstuffed turkeys as a result of too much food and way too much wine. I’ve always loved Christmas but it really becomes magical when there are small children about. The children spent last week sledging while we remained iced-in in our village. It was nice [...]

Happy Christmas

We’re off to send letters to Father Christmas, eat cake, drink wine and then start Christmas. Four boys are at fever pitch! Without wishing to get too soppy (I usually wait until I’ve had a couple of glasses of fine wine before I do that!) I want to thank you for your friendship, readership and [...]

Enrobed

(It’s not a sponsored post despite the word Waitrose and the picture and everything.) On Saturday Matthew went out to get essential supplies. As we were going to be snowed in I told him to get some yummy things too because the children are home this week, we’re snowed in and it’s Christmas and I [...]

Snow

The snow came overnight, swiftly, silently, so there was much excited shouting very early this morning. None of that excited shouting was from me, not at half past six in the morning. We had to go out this morning. I was glad it wasn’t my job to clear the car. I felt so sorry for [...]

Sunday Snippets

Marylin at Soft Thistle had a lovely idea to post the little bits that happen during the week but aren’t really worthy of a blog post in their own right. That’s most of our family life! And when I’m busy I’m all about the status updates so this suits me perfectly. ******** Christmas is in [...]