1. I have a lie-in, and then after breakfast (once Alec is napping), a lie-down in the attic with Nick.
2. Nick: "Tell Mummy what we saw on the Common."
Alec: "Tst-tst-tst."
Nick: "That's right, we saw a rabbit."
How amazing is seeing the baby that you made demonstrate his understanding of a statement relating to an event in the past?
3. "...and when we came in he went straight into the kitchen because he thought you'd be there. He was so disappointed when you weren't, but then luckily I saw you coming up the road and opened the door."
Although I do think, from the way Alec is pointing at the biscuit tin, that he wanted a biscuit rather than his mother.
Hoarders, flowers and technology.
1. In a low voice he reels off the names of the muscles where I have been hoarding all this tension. 2. He comes home with posies of flowers...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...