Chez Spud

Diggy with Granna at the playground in the forest. Too much fun in one sentence…presence of playgrounds, forests AND grannies all in one place…lucky boy. As usual we got about 10 foot away from the carpark. Is this typical for pre-schoolers? I don’t want to wish my life away but I am looking forward to [...]

Mr Diggy, a smidge under 3.5, learnt to swim totally solo this week. He’s been swimming under water for a while but, you know, sometimes you have to come up for air and swim ON the water. And now he can. I’m so proud of him, he’s only had 3 lessons and he refused to [...]

Oh how I laughed. For the last 10 days or so I’ve been itching to get a poppy field shot.  The field I snapped last year is covered in white daisies this year, but another field just a short drive away was absolutely magnificent. Probably the biggest poppy field I’ve ever seen and in a [...]

Oh I had such a giggle at a comment from Deb a few days back, when I posted a video of Bertie on his go-kart. “Nice to hear your voice”, she said. Um, Deb….that was MR SPUD not me!! This is me talking. I sound like the Queen. I was teased mercilessly about my cut [...]

Town of my noble birth…ah, blessed art thou Weston-super Mare…let’s overlook the fact that Jeffrey Archer is thou Lord…and the fact that the sea is NEVER in and you have to walk a mile for a paddle…and the fact that your nickname of Weston-super-Mud is so well deserved…anyway, thou art blessed amongst faded English seaside [...]

Hoorah. It snowed for real and the country came to a standstill as usual. MrSpud stayed home and we didn’t budge from the farm all day. Instead, we sledged. We staked out our run: We sledged solo There was quite a lot of trudging back up the hill of course We worked in pairs (not [...]

‘For unto us a child is born…’ 12

A couple of months ago I read a wonderful and very poignant post on the Pioneer Woman’s blog which suddenly made me so aware of how few photos I have of me with my boys, or MrSpud for that matter. That’s the downside of having a camera stuck to your face 24/7; no one dare [...]

Julocha’s very funny post today about her learner driver buddy named ‘Snow’ got me thinking a bit about names, specifically the huge responsibility that we have when we name our children. It’s so tough…interesting but not to whacky, popular without being ‘too’ popular, meaningful, easy to spell, goes with your surname etc etc etc. And [...]