I absolutely love this podcast, called the Shift, with Sam Baker.

When I started reading RED magazine all those years ago (2007?) Sam was the editor.... and now her podcast tackles all the midlife questions and has fabulous guests. I can't recommend it enough... Anyway she always ends with the questions below and I felt inspired today to answer ( Read more... )

Last time Aunty Sharon came to stay, Markus was just a babe, almost 9 years ago :-) Before that she and Gerry visited us in Zurich in 2005, and they got frequent references on my blog!

This time she swept in, I (finally) found her at the HBF, then we met the boys after rugby practice and walked to Fork and Bottle for a spot of late lunch. It was ( Read more... )

Sometimes in life, other people's confidence in us, more than makes up for our uncertainty about our future. I bring you the tale of the stripy south american dungarees, or "Gerry was right!"

These gorgeous stripy marvels were sent to us just before Markus was born, by my Aunt Sharon. Gerry and Sharon featured often on this blog and read it ( Read more... )

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Dear Markus

When you were just a bump, I wrote a series of blogs to you about the pregnancy, called postcards to my bump. Now that you're here, there's a few more things I want to write to you, as we grow together as a brand new family. And if I call them "postcards to my baby", then I can use the same tag (ptmb)So here's the first entry. We ( Read more... )

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15:48 is finally back home after her travels to Poland and Canada #

19:45 has been battling jetlag - slept, read, bathed, cried, slept again, unpacked, packed for "school" tomorrow and is now ready to eat #

23:23 is drinking camomile tea, updating podcasts and should be going to bed ! #
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