Team Mouse

All we need now are the t-shirts!
Several charming and choke-making things have started happening with Mouse - he motors up to D and I and lifts up his arms and says ‘HUG!’ and we all swoop together and have a real growly group huggermug. It’s lovely to feel his solid little body safely between ours, [...]

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Bugger Mondays!

D gave me a timecheck this morning at 6.35am - hurled myself out of bed and into the shower, as he went off to get Mouse a bottle of milk. Got showered, whisked about getting stuff organised, and was just ironing a pair of slacks when I heard D asking Mouse if he’d been fiddling with the [...]

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Tiny Shoe Nostalgia

Looking back over this blog, which now seems to have been maundering for nearly two years (well, if you say so; seems like yesterday!) I used to have a category that I made a lot of use of called Baby Musings. Not many posts with that in the category line now, are there?
My time was taken [...]

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They’re dry already??!

I’m quietly amazed by how fast the laundry is drying at the new place, and also at how fresh and sweet it smells. I use Ecover, which has no preservatives in it, so if clothes hang about damp for any length of time they go fusty. Not so at Number 11.
The longer I’m in the [...]

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Chance of a Rest…

In the new place, thanks to all that’s green and holy. I’ve left Roro and Dom asleep on the sofas after an enormous Mickey D’s breakfast (badness personified, but who the hell cares really?) and have come back over the the old house to tidy up a few loose ends and pick up some plants [...]

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Where Did a Week Go?

It says at the top of my last post that I made it on the 22nd June, but that can’t be right. Oh, wait, it is. I’m just losing days!
There’s a nasty slippage of time that always occurs around the middle of the year - things speed up and the distance between *now* and New [...]

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