It was a truly wonderful Christmas here this year – very relaxed, simple and calm – full of laughter and quietly precious family moments…. and an awful lot of (though I say it myself) fabulous food! As is now an annual tradition, Beth made a family video as our Christmas card, and I just wanted…
It’s been a while… but it feels like a good time for a catch up! I was telling a friend about how much I loved writing my blog – reflecting on where I am and what I’m doing with my life… and I realised with astonishment that I last updated more than two years ago!…
Hello again – I can’t believe I’ve managed to let 6 months pass without a word! Finally there are pauses in the mayhem, and I thought I’d treat myself to a moment’s catch up! So 2012 – turning out to be a rather splendid year for all of us! I’ve been teaching my socks off!…
Just a quickie – I’ve been setting up a new Welcome to the World website chronicling our family adventure of 2007/2008 – transferring the site content and all the travel blogs (one by one – there are more than 200!) from our old ‘.org.uk’ website before we shut it down. I haven’t finished the blogs…
So, Harry … Happy Harry – one of the many Aquarians in my life (along with my husband, mother, daughter, sister…) Born at home in our Isleworth sitting room; weighing in at 11lbs (nearly 5kgs) with only my Mum’s healing hand on my back and Joe’s constant support for pain relief, his birth was followed…
It’s time – it comes to every mother in the end – and sure enough at the highly appropriate age of 19 my baby boy now has a flat in St Etienne – it’s in his own name; he’ll have his own electricity bills, pay for his own food… do his own washing… and things…
Last weekend the whole family travelled to England to celebrate Mum and Dad’s 50th Wedding Anniversary. It was a magical, touching family gathering at the Grand Hotel overlooking the bay in Swanage. …and the sun shone on our parade! We were twenty-one in all: Mum and Dad, four daughters, husbands, partners, and eleven children… Married…
Last Saturday was such a beautiful day … Beth and I decided to go for a walk with our cameras. I’d love to say that this was something that often happens, but I have to confess that it tends to take a guest or two to actually get us out into our stunning surrounding countryside.…