Daddy’s new name…

Every morning when we drop Daddy-dear off at the train station, Georgia blows him a kiss and says
“Goodbye…My Snoopy Dear”

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A whole new set of verbs…

And to prove that her vocabulary continues to expand exponentially, Georgia has now decided to ‘invent’ words….
Sticker-ing – to stick stickers
Up-ping – to get up “I’m not upping like that” on to the bed
…and while these words are neither technically nor gramatically incorrect in tehir contextual use – how do I explain to my two-year old [...]

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Caldicot Library Books

Books borrowed and read from Caldicot Library
The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
Fast Fox Goes Crazy – Allan Ahlberg
Animal babies in ponds and rivers – Kingfisher Press
Yum Yum Poppy Cat – Lara Jones **
Ridiculous – Michael Coleman
Lemono P – Sam McBratney; Catharine O’Neill – enjoyed by now purposely says LemonoP Instead of LMNOP
Little Lucie’s DIary [...]

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A Gender Change?

A couple of mornings ago, downstairs in the kitchen, Georgia announces very confidently,
“Mummy’s a boy!”
So I ask her, “Oh, when did I become a boy?”
To which her immediate reply was “On Sunday. When Daddy became a girl!”

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Why some Mothers don’t mother…I wonder

There are many times when I feel very fortunate to now live in a culture so diverse and so ‘alien’ to the one in which I was raised, and yet, it is just as often that I feel this maddening frustration of what I feel is an internal culture clash – particularly with regards to [...]

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An appointment to see the Queen…but

she wasn’t there!
We stopped at Windsor on the way back from Croydon. Being able to step straight in to a working living castle is expensive albeit fascinating.
There have been some changes at Windsor since I last visited in 2004, there’s now the Moat Garden, which looked very pretty over the castle wall, but most of the exhibits [...]

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