Visit from a Nuthatch

An unfamiliar shape on the nut feeder outside the office window caught my eye a few days ago. Rather than the usual blue tits, sparrows or starlings, something that looked to me like a little streamlined kookaburra was upside down on the feeder, pecking away. Dad identified the bird as a nuthatch, which then obliged [...]

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A Good Friday

We spent the first of this spring’s great offering of bank holidays with John, Sam and the littles. It was a beautiful sunny day, with summer time temperatures – hard to believe it was April, not August. While the babies napped I inspected John and Sam’s vegetable garden. They’ve got room to grow more variety [...]

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The last of the Mohican carrots

I never got around to digging up the last of the carrots from my vegetable patch last year. The cold weather and my apathy arrived and that was that. The little row of green tops was just left to sit up the end of the garden, while I looked at them from the house, occasionally [...]

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One week

We all made another trip to visit the new family yesterday. Mum and Dad had been the day before too, but as that particular visit had been initiated at 2am, I didn’t accompany them on that one. Sam had a problem with her c-section wound, which has fortunately turned out to be a couple of [...]

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Sleepy babes

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Pea pods, face palms and big arms

On Sunday we headed to Surrey again for Baby Duty. Before heading to the hospital to see Sam and the girls we helped John tidy at home, doing things that needed to be done – such as vacuuming, mowing the lawn and deciding which safari animal stencil goes in which corner of the room. Sam [...]

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Something manly

Look! It’s a chinook! How manly! (The new normal of All Babies All The Time will return forthwith, so I thought the Manly Men of my readership may enjoy this brief respite)

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They’re here!

On Thursday Sam and John had an appointment with their consultant and it was arranged that if the twins hadn’t made an appearance of their own accord, they’d be delivered by c-section on Tuesday 26th April. Twin 1 had been stubbornly breech for some time, hence the planned c-section. John and Sam left the hospital, [...]

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