Saturday, July 2, 2011 I have two hands, a ………..     Well I think the song goes “I have two hands, my left and my right, etc etc”. Here is Amy’s rendition, sitting on our last night in Bali at the Villa complex – just me, the kids and Mary, and giggling giggling. We hadRead More

Amy,  You have amazed me yet again honey. How did you know your mum’s favourite film is The Sound of Music? For those that know, you know how mad Ni was about this film. Un-prompted Amy has taken a MASSIVE shine to the film and one particular song (again Ni’s favourite of the film). It’s just uncanny.Read More

Hi everyone,  Well firstly let me wish all friends and family around the world a truly wonderful Christmas and New Year. Some bumps in the road at the moment. Ollie and I are going through some counseling because we are struggling to talk re Mum. Ollie is bottling up feelings and not wanting to show sadnessRead More

SO here we are the “other” Royal Wedding of Barrie and Bing Bing on 30th April 2011. In fact I should add, the #1 wedding of two for Barrie and Bing Bing as in June we’re all off to Bali for the second one, and staying on a little later so I can celebrate myRead More

Baby girl – NOT  My little baby girl is growing so so fast. She is no longer my baby, just check these photos of her. Still only 3 but in some of these she seems so much older. Growing so so fast. This was an off school day and Mary took her to Paragon Shopping Centre whereRead More

Amy,  You are so so so going to tell Daddy off when you’re like 16 or something like that. But I just could not resist positing these couple of pictures. We’re all so proud of you and your potty training, in fact not even potty trained as you prefer to use the loo. But this makesRead More

 So here is some of THE SPEECH. A snippet, a sampler, a section – just enough to give you an idea! Ha Ha, a complete rush job squeezing in speech writing between getting ready for Amy’s birthday party, a nightmare. But we got there, many mad looks at this bloke in just shorts standing on theRead More

Very very naughty I know but I could not resist.  We all attended Ollie’s second rehearsal of the play at the actual theatre today and I snuck my camera in to take some video footage, because I am not allowed to at the actual performance next week. So it’s a bit bitty, but you get theRead More

Wow what a day it was yesterday. So joint birthday party at 1330 with Harry, Princess and Super Hero theme. Then Barrie and Bing wedding at 1800 same day, at which I was best man with no real duties (so I thought – read on). So a morning of chaos cake delivery, party bag packing,Read More

           Saturday, October 1, 2011 Ollie assembly    First one for a long time, in fact first one under his new teacher Miss Rebecca – Year 5 Swordfish. The song is all about responsibilities, which is Ollie’s latest Unit of Enquiry. Miss Rebecca quite in to acting and theatre so I am certain she and OllieRead More