Saturday, August 03, 2013

Eggs, big boy pants and growing up.

1. Rolling a hard boiled egg on the table to crack the shell.

2. Alec goes off to nursery not wearing a nappy (but with four changes of trousers in his bag). I am very proud of him.

3. Bettany is already growing into clothes that swamped her a month ago.
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Blue bath, in between and tomorrow's weather.

1. I float in a bath the colour of the deep sea listening to the instructions for a blue-themed writing workshop. 2. Just as  Traitors  gets...

  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    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...
  • Midsummer, feeding and cakes.
    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...
  • As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
    1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...