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15 juin 2010

Bob the builder and climbing in between the rain

The weather has been a bit mixed today so no picnic for us, just hanging out with the kids and my mum. They took Juno into have his “short back and sides” hair cut today and tonight I am sure he is thinking how flipping cold am I and where is the sunshine?!!!...

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16 juin 2010

Its my birthday and I'm feeling crap!

Well the anniversary of Rivan has arrived and he is officially 1 today – several questions arise – where has the last year gone? How did we produce such a handsome young man? What will the next year bring? The morning started rather early with Rivan waking...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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25 juillet 2010

Here come the girls

Early morning wake up call from Rivan this morning – he spotted me trying to get out of our room at 6.40 to go to the loo and decided that he a) wanted to be up and out playing and b) quite fancied bashing on his sisters door to wake her up too. Ruby...

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26 juillet 2010

Final tour of the lake...

Spent a lovely sunny afternoon with our dear friends down by the lake - feeding the ducks, climbing, running, flying, swinging and fishing with the kids. Soon (at the end of this week) Minutepapillon and her family will be moving to Chauvigny – a fantastic...

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29 juillet 2010

Lovely people, lovely house and garden, lovely afternoon

Was going to go to Les Herolles market today, but with it being full holiday season I knew that it would be mobbed and so my neighbour very kindly bought me some leeks to go in the garden as I am now starting to have a bit of space to put some new things...

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31 juillet 2010

Summer afternoon by the lake

Garden starting to really take off now thanks to the lovely hot weather and watering from Mr R and myself – our well that has NEVER run dry according to locals has now run dry – it might be due to the added watering of the willows this year. It is very...

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1 août 2010

Brocanting we shall go

Many brocantes on today and so we hit La Trimouille this morning and found some bargains – kids wooden building blocks and lots of English books – we are spoilt for French books with the local library in Montmorillon so when ever there is the opportunity...

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2 août 2010

Swimming in the afternoon

Ruby being a wee bit challenging at the moment – making a mountain out of a molehill and demanding stuff rather than asking for things, we are spending much of our day asking her to “ask properly” for things – we both strongly believe that manners cost...

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21 juin 2010

A masterpiece!

Home made presents are simply the best – time, love and care has gone into a gift which is truly from the heart. This year Rivan was blessed with several home made gifts – one of which I think is simply a “master piece”! This little suitcase for Rivans...

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5 août 2010

Welcome to your new house

Busy day – went to get some more animal feed this morning, Rivan did not sleep in the car as I thought that he would (he might miss something) so he did not have his morning 30 minute nap… By lunchtime after feeding the chickens and goat he just about...

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