I got my daughter a new toy. It’s the ELC Happyland Royal Wedding… TBH it looked dead cute and I got it as a bit of fun rather than with any royalist sensibilities. Which is of course why I let my little girl rip the packaging to open it rather than keep it mint in a box (You’re a TOY!)*


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Just got back from IKEA. That place is scary and beautiful at the same time. I think its the human equivalent of one of those bug zapper lights. You know that going is going to loose you a day and in return you are allowing them to gently mug you for at least £100 ( Read more... )

Friday night I bought a new washing rotary drier, with the plan to put that in on the Friday, so that we could take down the old washing lines (which were annoyingly strung at my neck height), and this would also clear a nice spot for us to plant the Apple Tree (in a mah-hassive plant pot…). And so proceeded a poorly thought oyt pounding in of a ( Read more... )

As most of you will be aware, my daughters name is Niya ( Read more... )

One of the interesting things to come out of all this is a slight review of my own childhood. No. Really I am learning some new stuff about myself ( Read more... )

On the subject of new toys. In just over a month it’s the little girls first birthday, fortunately on the bank holiday weekend ( Read more... )