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Let your imagination run wild.


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Jack's been taking steps for four or five days now. This is his best ever attempt, from earlier today.

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My market wot I organised was truly brilliant. Read tonnes more about it at www.northsidemakers.com and mrsbeckinsale.blogspot.com ( Read more... )

There's a cheeky little boy leaning against my knees, offering to put my car keys in my mouth. He's a full year old. Life is a wonder.

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Sure, it's five minutes long, but you get to listen to a Belle & Sebastian song at the same time. The original soundtrack was 'Invincible' by Muse but when T tried to upload it YouTube detected he was doing piracy ( Read more... )

Jack's first birthday party. I made the robot and the cake.


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A few weeks back I responded to a Facebook ad for Swinburne University's Babylab. They're currently recording babies' brain responses to sounds, then comparing brainwaves of control group babies (including Jack) to babies whose parents have schizophrenia or whose siblings are autistic. I had to answer two separate 80 question questionnaires. The ( Read more... )

This week I am the embodiment of the expression, if you want something done ask someone who's busy. I work and work and think and work and change nappies and make bottles and work and think and rarely make eye contact with T. Tonight he cooked posh tea and we ate at the table facing each other, and had a conversation. An unusual event ( Read more... )

I've disappeared, haven't I? I've been posting on my craft blog almost every day since April, and been leaving this personal one high and dry. Here's some recent snippets ( Read more... )

Here's Jack's entry for the Mother & Baby mag coverstar competition. I think if you click on the link he'll get another point toward getting on the 'most viewed' list. Not that it helps him win or anything ( Read more... )