I've got a tonne of photos to upload and I 've been meaning to put them up for ages but then life just ges in the way. LIfe and trying to make stuff to put on our etsy/folksy shops. Gah. SO much fun, but so much bloody hard work too. Anyway.

So here are a few pics of the ladies to get started. Most of them were taken the other afternoon in our ( Read more... )

Some pics from the holiday.( Cut to save your poor browsers. )

I said I'd post photos of the stuff I've been making.
( Safely beneath a cut to protect your friends pages, and also so you don't have to look if sewing/knitting/small children are not your bag! )

( Heavy on the photos )

Clearing the camera off for tomorrow's birthday insane-o-ganza and have to share this morning's cupcake frenzy. We did cupcakes for pre-school munching today, so post-Cheerios this is what my kitchen was like:( Cue chocolate covered sproglets )

Esme has decided her preferred mode of communication at present is either a high pitched shriek like an air raid siren or the raspberry. She likes to blow these on any available surface, including but not limited to my neck. Highly amusing when Orlaith then joins in on the action and there are raspberries in stereo.

Orlaith jumped into bed the other ( Read more... )

( many photos. much cuteness. )

As promised, here is the Tale of The Groucho:

I didn't mention when I posted on Sunday that I had been having a few pains on and off all day and that I could feel that things had moved downwards inside.
We went into the hospital as scheduled on Sunday evening and they got me hooked up to the monitor by about half past nine. Groucho's heart rate was ( Read more... )

Right, monitoring went okay although I almost had a heart attack when the midwife started querying whether I should be being induced tomorrow or not. It was fair enough, there are issues about which due date they should be using etc, but I tell you what, it is not what you want to hear when you are the size of a house and your knees and pelvic ( Read more... )

Just to prove I am not exaggerating when I say it's a jungle out there, 
Beautiful clematis (?) growing on a trellis against our side fence. Jake and I both love this vine.

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