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Easter by Joyce Kilmer

The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.

Oh if the above were only true Dear Reader but alas, the weather even down here on the Isle is rubbish! This time last year is was glorious and we had Easter Sunday lunch in the garden and were out there long into the evening with bottles of vino collapso to sustain us. I fear that this  will not be the case this year and so I am looking forward to the following

Some cake making with the SBG ( you may remember this exercise from before) – there will be chicks and bunnies involved…

 

Some visiting of friends and family. A line run through for the play that’s on in two weeks (yikes!!). And then there’s the new project – there are curtains to be hung, beds to be made, prettying up to do and photos to be take by our mega talented mate Gav (who can be found here http://www.gavinprestphotography.com ) – He is  looking at ways of marketing and publishing his photographs – so if any of you guys out there in blogland have any bright ideas, let me know – or better still if you’d like to buy his work or have fabulous wealthy contacts let him know!

There is so much to do over the holiday I may spontaneously combust and all my plans of lazing around and doing bugger all have gone out of the window. I may manage to sqeeze in a small lie in or two and we are out on the lash with Mr & Mrs Folly this evening to kick proceedings off.

I wish you a happy Easter Dear Reader with plenty of whatever takes your fancy.

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…about being a Grandparent is that the rules go out of the window.

Because the best way to get the last of the ice cream out of the bowl is to drink it. Natch!

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Picture the scene Dear Reader. There I am in the changing room of Next with the Smallest Baby Girl (who has insisted on joining me) trying on a new frock for New Year’s Eve. She is sitting on the shelf in the changing room, legs swinging nonchalantly The conversation proceeds thus:

SBG – ‘Are you going to be naked Nanny?’

Me – ‘No (she looked relieved at this). I’m just going to try this on over my jeans.

SBG – (looking with great interest as I struggle to do the zip up) ‘Is it going to do up Nanny?’

Me – ‘I hope so’.

*Long pause*

SBG – (In a considered fashion) ‘Well you are a BIT fat Nanny’.

*Slightly stunned silence from me*

Note to self – do not take small children into the changing room of ANY shop. EVER.

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Well Dear Reader, we are returned from Roma – a bit sweaty and definitely lighter of pocket. I haven’t quite uploaded everything, so before I bore you senseless with pictures of statues and a million different Colosseum shots, I thought that I’d share the below with you.

This is what happens on a hot day when

A. You are wearing a long dress

B. The paddling pool is full

C. You want to get into the paddling pool but because you are being contrary don’t want to take the dress off………


It just goes to show that the best Nannys are also the mother’s of invention!!!!

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