Christmas Part I: Christmas Eve with Sally Sam and Stanley

Christmas Part II: Christmas morning at home

Exhausted pause.....

Christmas Part III: Christmas Day/Night at Don and Wendy's

22nd December and it's snowing!

Stanley turns 2! - let's toast and eat cake!

Working up to being a Christmas elf

Breakfast is a sociable occasion

This gets very complicated, depending on the number, variety and size of creatures requested as attending audience, as they *must* all be on the seat and nowhere else

Still curly, getting longer, still no haircut as yet

Wintry pond-side walk with late autumn apples and Aura

Porridge, via large-volumetric shovel method

At the end of October our amazing supernanny Lisa left to go and live in France and this was our farewell party

Lisa's on the far right and Sally, Stanley and Sam, the family we shared her with, are at the back. Cassidy still sometimes waves up to the clouds and says bye bye Lisa, aeroplane

Fun with a hat

In late October, Jim's dad Ed and his wife MaryLou visited - Obart and Lulu to Cassidy

Back from Italy and winter's coming to Paddington Bear....

Ok, this is about enough of Medici villas thank you very much....

Icecream and churches and flowerpots and waiting - a weekend in Italy

Umbrella cabaret in the park

October brought a trip to Prato, Italy, just north of Florence - from excitement on the plane to statues and flowers...

Tabletop walk

Hi everyone - you may have noticed a very long gap! - caused by my laptop crashing a few days after the last blog post on August 9th. After much technological struggle, many visitors and multiple learning paths, we are back and running on a Mac! And what follows are sunny summer memories, sadly all too out of date themselves now too. I will get to autumn as winter approaches....!

Nostalgia...

Park days