Thursday, November 24th, 2011

We’re having the carpet fitted. All of it. It’s taking two days. We have to remove everything but three pieces of furniture from each room. That’s not really happening. Robert has to be at work. Cathy and I are moving a lot of furniture. The carpet people didn’t measure one of the rooms. We’re missing [...]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

When I was out shopping yesterday with Robert I had a text from my dad. It said that yesterday was his father’s, my grandfather’s, birthday. My grandfather died when I was very young indeed. My other grandfather, my Mum’s dad, died when I was pregnant with my twins. Both of them took part in World [...]
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Friday, November 4th, 2011

Hello! Happy Friday! Oh and by the way you guys are just about the most amazing bunch of people I have ever come across. Seriously, to give that much thought and consideration to the question of a forum posed yesterday was invaluable to me. Each reason for and against was totally valid and had merit. [...]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Photograph credit – Keiko Oikawa { www.keikooikawa.com } Hello! Thank you so much for all of your Christmas House ideas. LOVED them! Every time a new one came in I read it and got just a little bit more excited about planning for the silly season. It’s going to be a vintage Christmas this year [...]
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Monday, October 31st, 2011

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! It is a happy one too! Jodie is home. And Henry is home too. And it will all be OK. My amazing younger sister and I had a long hug at her home on Friday and we both cried quite a bit. She’s been through such a lot but still kept her humour [...]
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

My sister has pneumonia, I was told last night. She is very weak and is being fed by a tube that she has in her nose leading down to her stomach. We need her to get better. Henry, who is doing fantastically, needs her to get better. I know she will get better but she’s [...]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

As usual it’s been quite eventful round these parts. On Saturday at 03.26am my sister gave birth to a boy, Henry, via C-Section. He came in at a rather large 9 lbs 4 oz and is doing very well indeed. We’re all absolutely delighted that he’s here and doing well and the thought of him [...]
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Friday, October 21st, 2011

So much to say, so much to tell, so much to get excited about! But first of all a winner! Of course you’re all winners (we’re all winners simply because we make it through each and every day without killing each other or the cat) but today I have one specific winner and that person [...]
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Monday, October 17th, 2011

Thank you. Thank you so much for your comments on Robert’s fantastic news. The fact that you took time out of your busy lives to think of us, pray for us and hold my family in your thoughts is still nothing short of a miracle to me. Since we were given the news that Robert’s [...]
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Here are some of the things I have learnt this week ….. I have learnt, from the comments on the last post, that some of you liked the picture of the Pheasants. Great! I have learnt, from the comments on the last post, that some of you didn’t like the picture of the Pheasants. I [...]
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