Mike and I have already seen baby Oscar several times. I was privileged to be one of Steph’s birth partners along with her lovely friend Bethany. Mike did the 100+ mile round trip from Kent to Surrey to see his grandson and, as it turned out, his name-sake (Stephanie dedicated her son’s middle name to him),… Read More
The problem with having a large family is that when one gets ill, the rest tend to follow quite quickly. This means you don’t just have to deal with one bout but several, sometimes different illnesses in quick succession, tend to hit one after the other. We’re all pretty fed up with it… Read More
There have been varying degrees of illness for the last six weeks. Yes, six weeks. As soon as one child recovered, another came down with something-or-other. Then two weeks ago this happened: Eddie came to the breakfast table sporting a red, spotty number. Chicken pox. I incorrectly worked out that eight of… Read More
My Saturday plans to make fresh ravioli for dinner ended up with the opening of the culinary domestic sweatshop. Paddy came on board to cook the filling earlier on during the day. Afternoon came around and with the filling now cool, it was time to begin preparing the ravioli. Obviously, with 13 of us… Read More
We ended up marking the end of more than a month of various bugs and illness by celebrating three birthdays within five days. Ben celebrated his 22nd birthday on the 10th, miles away from us of course, being in the chilly north for uni while we are remain in the almost-as-chilly-but-not-quite-as-cold south-east. A… Read More
It seems like an eternity since we returned from Italy, getting straight back into continuing work on the house in preparation for selling. Although we have only been back since the end of August it seems ages since the photo above was taken. Of course, if you are sitting there counting everyone you… Read More