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Another success yesterday. We had the death certificates through from the third child, Dorothy, and a formerly-unknown-but-suspected fifth child, Hilda ( Read more... )

Nanny (my Dad’s mum) had a black and white picture of an older woman with a friendly, kind-looking face that sat in a frame on top of her gas fire ( Read more... )

This weekend Madam has learnt two new words: "guitar" (that's my girl!) which comes out as "tee-tah", and was said repeatedly while leafing through one of my folk music magazines. I think she's interested because Murray from The Wiggles plays one - but hey, it means she's learning something during this current obsession ( Read more... )

We haven't had a television aerial at home for roughly about three years now, give or take a couple of months ( Read more... )

In lieu of any interesting content lately (we got the shoes, eventually), mostly due to Taplas, here are some more recent pics of Nushie to be going along with.


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Two and a half weeks ago (I think, might have been three), having noticed Nushie's feet were filling her shoes out considerably, I took her to the shoe shop in Calne (the Clarks outlet in Chippenham being a no-go area due to the fact that Clarks very rarely do the wider sizes ( Read more... )

Madam has had a tummy bug this week. Started on Saturday after a visit to the City Farm (don't think they were related, to be honest), where she got her fingers pecked by hens ( Read more... )

Slow work day today, so I started compiling a list of words that Nushie can now say ( Read more... )

So, then, the Folk Awards ( Read more... )