Up until a few weeks ago it has been rather mild here in London. The weather decided to turn last weekend in time for the annual Blackheath fireworks event. We all trundled down there trying to find a shortcut through the new road layout at Loampit Vale. The event as expected was rather good if …
Category Archives: Jake
Summer is here
This week has been lovely. In fact the last two weeks have been great. It’s been rather busy this week. Jake had a swimming Gala today, Mia had her tester session at St Dunstans and I have been running around on the Xtracycle trying to sort out my flat car tyre. I cycled down to …
Is it Spring? maybe
It is the middle of May and yesterday the temperature was only a chilly 9 degrees. We have had a couple or warm days but mostly it has been cold and wet. Again, I have put off planting anything in the garden so again I don’t have much going on there. I’ve planted some pea …
Toothy grin
Jake has at last lost his top tooth that has been threatening to fall out for what seems a very long time. Mia is an utter poppet. She is in a dress and tights phase at the moment and refuses to wear anything else. This evening I heard her crying so I went to investigate. …
Taggie version 3 or is that 4?
While Amy was valiantly getting her dissertation proposal finished this weekend, I decided to head to Bluewater to search for Mia’s birthday present. We wandered around for ages going from shop to shop. I bought her a pair of slippers as a birthday present from Jake. I also bought Jake a nice dressing gown and …
School, bikes and lego
So Jake is back at school and has moved his classroom upstairs into year 2. New uniform, new year, and very smart he looks in it too! Mia has been a little poppet and continues to delight us. I tried to make a start of the potty training at the weekend. The result? Number of …
Jake cycles!
I took Jake to Halfords to buy a new helmet. I wanted him to get excited about riding his bike and also to give him an incentive for getting rid of the stabilisers. To this end I left the shop £50 worse off. We bought not only a new helmet, but some cycling mitts and …
Time has flown
Jake is now 6 and has been for a while. We had a joint Hogwarts party with Charlotte and Ben because Antonia too is a great fan of Harry Potter. The venue was great, a church hall a stones throw away from Crofton Park station. The best thing though was the entertainer. She came dressed …
Dodgy burgers and prolonged illness
It’s the tail end of February and I’ve just realised that this years photo February project has passed me by. Photo March has a nice ring and the days will be longer and hopefully a little warmer. It’s been an odd sort of month. I was off sick for a week. Amy was ill at …
New year and all that
Well, I’ve kind of succeeded in keeping up the cycling over the winter. Of course the run up to Christmas was a non-starter. So far this year I have done the mega 30 mile commute twice, the other times I have succumbed to the 10k ride to Waterloo station. Every time I do this it …