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Preschool
Just had Daniel's introductory afternoon at preschool today. I stayed with him the whole time today, though he'll be attending on his own (3 afternoons a week) when the new term starts in September. It's uncanny how Joyce Grenfell things remain, although I suppose it shows that children don't change: genuine sample dialogue from this afternoon ( Read more... ) -
Obligatory Dreamwidth post
I haven't opened a Dreamwidth account but I have set up using OpenID (ixwin.livejournal.com) which seems to be working fine in terms of giving me access to friendslocked posts both on my Dreamwidth reading page and on cross-posted-to-lj posts ( Read more... ) -
Bloomsbury Theatre
The spring/summer lineup at the Bloomsbury Theatre does sound suspiciously like someone picked a selection of things from my friends interest lists. I mean: Lucy Porter, Clive James, a comedy night in aid of a peace charity, Show of Hands, Tony Benn, another comedy night in aid of a mental health charity ( Read more... ) -
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Lovely unprompted flight of fancy from Daniel this evening which got me giggling. He had a piece of bread and butter in front of him
Daniel: Mummy cut bread [into] two pieces
(Mummy does so)
Daniel: Bread talking each other. This piece say "Bye-bye other piece. I am going into Daniel's mouth with butter on" -
Parenthood
Before children:
Clocks going back = an extra leisurely hour of Sunday morning
After children:
Clocks going back = two little ones wide awake and raring to go at 6:15 a.m.
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Cookery question
If a recipe calls for "450g of fresh peas, shelled" would you interpret that as the weight before or after shelling?
Edit: I went with the pre-shelled weight in the end, and it seemed okay - it could have coped with more peas, but probably not as many as there would have been if I'd used 450g post-shelling ( Read more... ) -
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I will be leaving the house today with a rucksack containing- 3 disposable nappies
- 2 bottles of wine
- a copy of the complete works of Shakespeare
- some Greek marinated olives
- a half-completed passport application
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Baby Abbie
As those of you who read vectorious's journal will know, I am now a proud mum of two. Both are now sleeping peacefully*, giving me time to write this. I'm feeling surprisingly together at the moment, but we'll see if it catches up with me tonight or tomorrow ( Read more... ) -
Daniel manual
No sign of number two's arrival yet (she was due on Tuesday). Have an appointment at the hospital on Wednesday afternoon to discuss options re: induction, but hopefully it won't come to that ( Read more... ) -
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Eee - I am now an auntie! :)
My sister-in-law, Emma (who a few of you met at our wedding along with her now-husband Chris) gave birth to her first this evening. He is called Benjamin & mum and baby are both doing well, and expect to be going home tomorrow. Not sure when we'll get to see them all but hopefully not too long - we will be seeing vectorious's ( Read more... )