Monthly Archives: December 2007

We headed over to the beach this morning, thankfully it was a good few degrees cooler than yesterday.  We had fun paddling, building sandcastles and playing with Ella’s new beachball.  Alan tried to convince Ella to go for a swim … Continue reading →

We’re in for a spell of hot weather over the next 5 days or so. It’s 1:30 in the afternoon and the mercury is tipping 37.4. It’s way too hot to venture out with Ella and Charlie so we let … Continue reading →

The morning after the night before is always interesting, some of us were feeling worse than others particularly when we looked at the number of empties!! Charlie was looking very patriotic dressed in his new rugby top from Santa (a.k.a … Continue reading →

Happy 1st Christmas Charlie….. Charlie woke at 6 and we woke Ella at 7, parents excitement taking over the children’s. We opened their stockings in their bedroom, Charlie had no idea what was happening but Ella delighted in ripping open … Continue reading →

There’s definitely something about spending Christmas in the sun which sits uneasily with Scottish blood. Its enough to say that when Alan left to take Ella to nursery (usually there on a Wed but its a public hol this week) … Continue reading →

On Sunday we went to the Roti Man (fabulous local Indian restaurant) with friends for dinner. There were a fair few of us – Alan & I, Ella, Charlie, Mhairi, Blanche, Fiona, Mark, Hugh, Rory, Aoife, Whitney & bump, Brian … Continue reading →

We spent today catching up with friends before the Christmas holidays. It’s been a thoroughly miserable day of thunderstorms so at least a car trip got us out and about. This morning we visited Amanda, Olivia and Sophie. Ella and … Continue reading →

Ella’s childcare centre (Treehouse) has had lots of festive activities on this week. Today was fancy dress and Ella was delighted when I told her she could wear her fairy outfit….so excited!! Here’s a picture of her before we left … Continue reading →

This morning Ella’s little friend Olivia came over to play for a few hours. Ella has a ‘kitchen’ from the toy library so we set it up out on the decking and they made lunch. It’s lovely to watch the … Continue reading →