Catherine started pre-school this week. On the face of it, it didn't feel like that big a change. She's still going to the same nursery, still going two days per week (Monday and Friday), just going upstairs instead of into one of the downstairs rooms. She's changed rooms several times already, from baby room to toddler room to the "bigger toddler ( Read more... )

Catherine's naming ceremony and first birthday party was a huge success. She was a little superstar and coped brilliantly with all the attention. It was lovely to see so many friends and family there, and we missed those who weren't able to make it. The Humanist lady wrote a wonderful ceremony which captured our spirit perfectly. She's promised me ( Read more... )

It seems there's been lots of news chez Arnold recently, so I'm trying to catch up with a big update, using cuts to help your friends pages :)

( We went on holiday )

So I got a letter on Friday. From the part of my company that deals with one of our employee share purchase schemes. Advising me that they had been advised by Payroll that my salary was not sufficient to cover my contribution this month. This rang alarm bells, as this particular contribution is only £30 per month. How could I not be able to cover £ ( Read more... )

I've not done an update for a while, so I thought I should quickly recap what's been happeneing in the Arnold household ( Read more... )

It's now two weeks since I finished work, and I'm starting to wonder how I managed to fit everything in before! It's been great to have the time to help Mum settle in - we had several shopping outings last week as she's having her kitchen fitted this week and had to find a fridge and cooker to go with it ( Read more... )

Well, it feels like we have progressed a great deal with the nursery this week ( Read more... )