It has been a busy month. Jakey is still doing new and amazing(well to us anyway) things. After a small sleeping blip he has now settled at night with only a few bellows and most nights with barely a sound. However, now Jake does not sleep the whole night and has reverted back to waking …
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Fire at Dairy House Farm
Early on Sunday morning at around 3 a.m. we were woken by shouting outside and people banging on our door. Then we heard someone shout “get out, the barn’s on fire!!”. We scooped up Jake and threw a few possessions in the car and drove to the farm entrance, where the other holidaymakers were gathered. …
Father’s Day Weekend
To celebrate Father’s Day we took Jake on his first holiday. Amy had booked a nice apartment in a converted stables. The weather was superb with a cloudless blue sky and temperatures of 28-29 degrees celcius. Our apartment was lovely and had it’s own conservatory overlooking the hills and the Blackmore Vale beyond. The farm …
Scorchio!
The British summer has arrived at last. The weekend was absolutely steaming with a temperature of around 28-29C. I would have liked it a little cooler but thankfully there was a nice breeze to temper the soaring mercury. On Saturday we took Jake on an outing with Nanny Janet to the Wild Animal Park in …
Dummy or not?
Jake is still going through the throes of teething. On Wednesday he was in a dreadful mood and just didn’t want to go to bed. We decided not to to give in to plugging in the dummy and tried some controlled crying. It was quite heart-breaking. We left him for 5 minutes after which we …
Teething Already
Amy has been looking after my nieces for the week down in Worthing during their school half-term holiday. I have been doing the mammoth commute from Worthing to Staines which means a 5.30am start. Ouch! Young Jakers has started teething this week and has been rather unsettled. Amy has been frazzled with the extra demands …