the adlards

Yes Jo-Jo, today I’m going to town with you. Every other day I’m a slave to the machine …

I swear she could see it. She was so focussed and anxious that I was convinced something nearer by was burning. I started searching the skyline and buildings in that direction for signs of flames.

“That’s right. And what’s Mummy’s other name?”

In which Josie says:
Mum did wake up, Soph did wake up, you did wake up and me did wake up.
Pete and Ros come soon.

We all had a good night’s sleep last night. What’s amazing is the effect that a good sleep has on the potency of the wormhole that disguises itself as our shower …

With a quiet bit of deck, a patio heater, good company and an inquisitive robin.

The shops are inexplicably full of pumpkins at the moment, so Michelle and Josie made a lantern. Novel, I know. It’s this kind of unprompted spontaneity just sparking off around me that keeps me sharp …

nuff said

Not only do we get clothes from our grannies, we get them “thrown in” from other people’s too. That’s right, we started the day at an 8am car boot sale.

I was sitting on the deck this evening, enjoying a rather good merlot with bicuits, when the sitting room door opened and out came Josie. Her eyes lit up predictably when she saw the biscuits …