Rae of sunshine

24 juillet 2010

Fruits and flowers of the garden

A perfect day for spending the afternoon outside – in the garden picking some of the ripe fruit and taking in the warm summer sun with a nice cool breeze blowing through our hair to keep us cool. Got as far as the vegetable garden this afternoon and then...

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23 juillet 2010

Old vs New

Charlie and the chocolate factory is one of the classic children’s films and the original version starring Gene Wilder is well know and a fantastic film. The remake starring Johnny Depp follows the same storyline but I feel differs quite dramatically...

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22 juillet 2010

Chickens, rabbit, steps, dollies and tea and cake.

Where is the week going? Already it is Thursday and we are heading towards the end of July – it is true as you get older the faster the days go. Took the kids over to our friends this afternoon, I made a cake which took 2 attempts. The first I tried to...

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18 juillet 2010

Modern art

Looking back at a recent album the crèche had given me of when we did a painting course with Ruby when she was little made me remember how much she loved painting – the feeling of the wet cool paint between her toes, the slippery sensation on her feet...

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17 juillet 2010

Sunflower Saturday

A field of sunflowers is to me quite iconic of France and every time I drive the kids to crèche we pass a beautiful field of sunflowers – stretching as far as the eye can see. I could not resist the temptation to stop and take a picture of little miss...

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15 juillet 2010

Should have been eating our tomatoes for tea...

Should have been eating a lovely salad this evening of home grown tomatoes, cherry and yellow, cucumber and salad washed down with a helping of strawberries and yoghurt. However instead that is what our “Matron” had for tea last night with her two little...

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14 juillet 2010

July 14th bank holiday

July 14th in France is a national holiday and there are many festivities going on all over France. Last year we did not make it to any of them as I was still getting used to the arrival of Rivan and trying to find a routine to get everything done in the...

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11 juillet 2010

Picnic with Kidikwa

Kidikwa is an association that a group of like minded women have set up – the aims are to provide a mother and toddler group, provide English lessons to children in French schools and a monthly evening meeting where the French and English get together...

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10 juillet 2010

Precious moments....

Being woken by Rivan who is sitting in bed watching me sleep waiting for me to stir so he can give me a smile and pass me his favourite toy sheep. Seeing that look in Rivan’s eyes that says “I love you mum please can you take my hand as I really need...

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9 juillet 2010

Retail Therapy

Today I dropped the kids off at crèche – Rivan and Ruby are both there every Friday now. I made sure that they had a lovely lunch, the right balance of fruit, veg, carbs and a little bit of naughtiness. I then headed to my dear friends house and we parted...

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7 juillet 2010

market, swimming and picnic

Woke this morning with Rivan chatting away to his toys in his bed and when he realised that I was awake he stood up in his cot and gave me a wonderful cheeky smile – I knew that it was going to be a good day. Opened the shutters and said good morning...

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5 juillet 2010

Auntie Jane came to play...

Today the lovely auntie Jane came to play. It is always such a pleasure to see her and spend time with her and her lovely friend. They have come for a little bit of “rest” from their normal daily routine in Bristol. The wonderful Auntie Jane! The kids...

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4 juillet 2010

Slap that bread missus!

Teaching Ruby to cook is a great pleasure and one that I am sure that Rivan will be more than happy to learn when he is a little bigger. Today we were going to prepare some rosemary bread to eat with our evening meal as we had friends coming round for...

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3 juillet 2010

Fruit picking and parties

The desire for strawberries got the better of us - we had not been able to find any decent ones in the supermarket so we decided to go to a local “pick your own” this afternoon. It was a perfect afternoon for this; it was still quite hot but not the burning...

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1 juillet 2010

The first tomatoes of the year!

Mornings are a wonderful time of day for both me and the kids, our morning routine does not really change from day to day, Rivan is the fist one awake (unless Ben is working), followed by Ruby who wants to open the shutters and recently can’t wait to...

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30 juin 2010

Hot summer sun

Hot hot hot with little breeze today and very glad that we have an old house with a nice cold floor to cool our feet and bodies – we so made the right decision putting in under floor heating which could be reversed in the summer to cool the house, the...

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29 juin 2010

Cherries galore

A wonderful summers evening, it been hot today and looks to continue for the rest of the week and into the weekend. There was a fantastic storm yesterday with 60mm of rain falling within the space of a couple of hours. The cracking of the thunder was...

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28 juin 2010

Open morning at school

Today Rivan and Dad stayed at home whilst Ruby and I went to her school for an open morning where she will be attending in September. She will start with mornings only and see how she goes - it might transpire that she wants to stay longer – to have lunch...

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24 juin 2010

10 years ago...

10 years ago today we were waking in separate houses (even though we had been living together for 7 years) – Ben was waking in his mum’s house a few minutes away and I was waking in our house. We would not be seeing each other until we were about to say...

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23 juin 2010

Bike riding and arrival of Granddad and Yvonne

The sunshine has returned for good we hope and summer is back. This means that the afternoons are spent outside with sun cream and sun hats. Ruby is currently learning to ride her bike (with stabilisers on – very kindly donated by little miss D) and she...

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