Behind The Child

Take one busy, active, intelligent six year old boy who lives, sleeps and breathes Star Wars. Add one determined eight year old girl who has...

A small girl, pampering her mother at Brownies. A back and neck massage, a hand rub, nail painting, hair brushing, and foot weirdery. Love...

Funeral Blues I wish I could be there, my friend. Love, Tia

A knock at the door,  a parcel for Tia No deliveries expected, an early Christmas present?    A Cadbury...

Mog and I danced at death today. We weren't expecting to. But we were privileged to attend the funeral of a most precious friend, our be...

Just for today, I am not OK Autumn's beauty empty to me; The sun, aching bright, so cold. All around me lost and lonely Lea...

And we finally have clearance to fly. Oxygen booked for the flight if needed, airline reassured that neither girl is likely to die on board,...

There's something about Autumn which brings out the dormant domesticity in me. After a summer of shoving stuff here and there and settli...

Beating the stuffing out of your friend. Why all the pictures of Miss Mog with her handsome prince and so few with other friends? Becaus...

We like cousins. Cousins are great. Cousins know the same relatives you know, and they share the same Grannie and Grandad, and t...

 Artwork as created by Brother and Nephew  Cousins getting into reading.  I do not like Green Eggs And HAM! But we do like read...

Mog's special Birthday treat today. A bit belated, but timed to allow for the inclusion of the Tanzanian Cousins, now officially the Bac...

The deed is done. We broke the news. The Little Princess has known for a while that we are going to Florida. But there was a day, a few we...

 I think it was on a Thursday. But suddenly, there was sun.  Summer uniforms came out, flowers decided to burst into bloom, the bumbleb...

Just a very quick note to those who know our wider family. Please rest assured, Mum is not stranded in Barcelona without any money. Her emai...

High tech friends, checking each other's monsters whilst the grown-ups play chat and drink tea. One of these children is two years ...

Fun times all round today. A nice, reasonably civilised, meal with friends. We only took up one end of the coffee shop in question, sampled ...

Hanging around with friends