Month: April 2008
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Birthday planning
Because we’re so disorganised it was straight after Christmas, Astrid didn’t have much of a first birthday, so I’m now in planning mode for her first and a half birthday at the end of June. I can’t remember how I stumbled upon nana company but I am quite in love with her cute little sugar…
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Mt Albert House
This is for the record, part of the family diary. So I shan’t apologise for the excessive photos. Much as I would like to. We bought our house in Mt Albert in December 2006, three weeks before Astrid was born. We’re moving back to London on May 31st 2008 but we’ll keep this place for…
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Working
We finally got a nanny for Astrid. Just before we leave. Don’t tell, but we’ve got Mary Poppins. She talks to Astrid all day long, sings songs, whistles, plays games, makes jokes, feeds, bathes, entertains, laughs, claps. She is Astrid’s friend. It’s brilliant hearing the goings on during the day while I’m working here in…
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Time to shop
at the shop. (All proceeds go to the Moving to London Fund).
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‘Normal’
This year I decided to actually lose the baby-weight I oh so efficiently gained (on medical instruction I might add) in the last two months of pregnancy. I had been so incredibly annoyed with myself every single day last year, that on New Years day I thought fuck it, I’m buying some scales and going…
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Turning
Yesterday Astrid took her first steps. Today she left the house for a walk with a new nanny. They’ll be back soon. As the souls of the autumn leaves slip quietly into the sky and their bodies shatter underfoot, another year passes – another circle of time completes. This is my time of year; when…
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Joomla and Simple Image Gallery Pro
The pretty photo is for those who came here hoping to find a handmade, baby or garden post and instead found this terribly dry coding post 🙂 I’ve had a few setbacks on the Joomla front and have had to spend such a long time finding solutions I’m writing them here in case they can…
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Shinzi Katoh shopping
A friend emailed me a few weeks ago with a link to the Shinzi Katoh shop. I’d done a little research and visited the shop following Leslie’s amazing encounter – but it’s always more motivating when you’ve had a friend tell you you really really must look, NOW! So I had a proper look this…