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Fisher-Price Cooking the Books

Mummy is getting very puffy these days. I don’t mean big – although she is of course pretty big - I mean that she’s always out of breath. After a morning spent pushing some Lego around in my with my Brio Toddler Wobbler – how do they come up with these names – We went [...]
Country Smells & Morning Bells & Twins of Evil Strike Again

I don’t know what it is about the countryside but there are always bells ringing somewhere in the morning. Now you add this to roosters, sheep, cows, jolly, whistling tradesmen, blackbirds, crows, tractors and countless howling dogs and you wonder why people don’t move back to London for some peace and quiet! Mind you, we [...]
Puppets, Poppets & Wee-Wee Wendy

Great day. Spent a very happy few hours playing with my lovely Brio Pull Along Fire Truck. Then the ‘Langline’ rang and we found out that ‘Toddly-Tunes’ is not happening today. It would appear that Marian Lord has come down with some ailment she got in Tibet. Probably repetitive strain injury from overdoing the finger-cymbals [...]
Gloomy Old Thursday Again. Need I say More? Probably.

Yes. It’s gloomy Old Thursday again. Need I say more? I probably should. I really don’t know why I have this love hate relationship with Thursdays. Well, I say love hate, I really mean hate! I mean I’m sixteen months old, I’m in rude health, I don’t have much to worry about… my only real [...]
Poetry By The Metre & Eurostar Stuck Again.

No poetry appreciation today, on account of Domenic, apparently, has gone off to a poetry conference. I’m very impressed. I didn’t even know they had conferences. I can just imagine all the delegates sitting round with badges on with names like Tarquin and Sophia while some bloke with a beard and a tweed jacket does [...]


















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