When Callum woke up on his birthday he firstly said "Is it morning time?", he'd forgotten it was his birthday and then he saw his silver helium star balloon and exclaimed "My star balloon, thank you!" The penny had dropped, he was out of bed and came running into our room with his balloon flying behind him. We all went... Read more →

Today Callum will be FIVE. Today he will wake up to a shiny silver star helium balloon in his bedroom. Today he will get lots of presents and hopefully be really pleased with what we've bought him (we didn't get him the Wii game - Super Mario Galazy 2 he'd asked for - he wanted it for Matthew!). Today he... Read more →

Last week we decided it was time for a change in our kitchen. Gone are the peachy walls and old silver clock and here are beautiful green walls and retro 50's clock. OK I know the walls don't look very green in the photo above - what's with that? But look below... I also painted one wall in the utility... Read more →

The first school my sons go to put on a production every year and all the children (all 300) take part. This year they put on 'Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'. I had offered to help with any sewing that needed doing and was given fabric to make sashs for Matthew's year group. I made 17 sashs in lilac... Read more →

Here we've been growing our own. Just a few things in pots like strawberries, tomatoes, basil, runner beans, broad beans and cucumber. So far we've only eaten the strawberries and basil, but there are loads of tomatoes growing and lots of flowers on the runner beans. Callum is really keen to have home grown cucumbers, his absolute favourite vegetable. We'll... Read more →

This year Jeff came up with the idea of going to Corfe Castle for Fathers Day. We'd been to Corfe on several occasions but hadn't actually taken the boys into the castle grounds itself. Matthew went last year on his school trip and Callum will get to go next year at school, but this year we went as a family.... Read more →