... or Happy Hallowe'en, to those celebrating either.

(And to those who don't, may you be left free of pestering by unwanted Trick-or-Treaters!)

The Small People both went out with us/friends - First dressed as a devil, complete with horns and red face-paint, and Second as a skeleton - and came back gleefully clutching a small bucketload of sweets ( Read more... )

Have a good Fourth, all my US-based friends.

(And everyone else as well, regardless...)

A very happy Thanksgiving holiday to all my friends across the pond (or elsewhere) who are celebrating. May you enjoy the company of family and friends, good food and drink, or just a little downtime.  I hope that in the coming year, all those things/people in your lives for which you have cause to be thankful will thrive and flourish - and I just ( Read more... )

... it is now the time at which we were aiming to set off for our week in Somerset, and we are ready!!

I am not a screaming stressed harpy and the Resident Geek is not swearing about attempting to defy the laws of physics by trying to squeeze everything into the boot.  Not sure how this has happened.

Posts for the next week will be sporadic and from ( Read more... )

Ho hum, there's the summer gone. September, it's raining, and it was dark by 8 pm!

First Small Person went back to school yesterday, and Second had his first day at pre-school (which seems to have been a success; he clung to my leg for the first hour - fortunately I'd arranged to take the day off work so I could settle him in! - but was very happy ( Read more... )

( I did promise you more anon... )

... and nearly 24 hours and six (count 'em!) loads of laundry later, we are unpacked and nearly straight.  (Hurray - I do hate getting back from a holiday and having to go straight into the working week, and spending a week or more tripping over half-unpacked bags before we get caught up.)

We had a lovely time, the kids loved France, the Resident ( Read more... )

The Resident Geek, the Small Persons and I are heading to la belle France - not actually till first thing Wednesday morning (5.30 am we need to leave, urgh...), but tomorrow is likely to be a hurricane of packing/running around like headless chickens (in our usual pre-holiday departure panic - having inquisitive little people around the place ( Read more... )

Hurrah, all the bits of this summer's family holiday in France that need booking (ferry crossings, gite plus B&B) are finally booked!  Have been juggling various jigsaw pieces for weeks and was starting to fret, as Channel crossings were visibly going up in price (and getting fuller) as the days passed.  But now it's all nailed down so we're ( Read more... )