xmas

Story telling from lizdavies 323 days old

We went to Reading yesterday to see Ed's sister and her family. She has three lovely grandsons and a baby graddaughter. The boys are at that wonderful ...

Back to work from lizdavies 1038 days old

After my unforeseen extra two days holiday, I'm back to work tomorrow. I'm looking forward to being gently awoken by our new clock-radio, showering with ...

Not such a good day from lizdavies 1056 days old

The first day of the holidays didn't turn out so well. I woke up feeling a litle queasy, but put it down to the previous night's party excesses - although ...

End of Term from lizdavies 1057 days old

This week has been a bit of an anti-climax at school, as all the concerts and parties were last week, so we had business as usual for the last 2 days, ...

Upstairs, downstairs from lizdavies 1061 days old

Last week downstairs was a mess. Ed decided to have the carpet in the through lounge-dining room cleaned. It needed doing, but of course necessitated ...

Christmas Tree from lizdavies 1061 days old

The Christmas Tree. Same old ornaments, some dating from my own childhood and before, one or two new this year, and mementos from the many years in ...

Recipe for Liz's Christmas Cake from lizdavies 1062 days old

Ingredients 8oz self raising flour 1 Cup butter 1 Cup sugar 4 large eggs 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 cup dried fruit lemon juice 1 Cup brown sugar ...

Audience Part 2 from lizdavies 1063 days old

Well it was fairly horrendous, and we did adjourn to the pub for lunch! All 100 children arrived in the morning and were allocated to their various adults. ...

Christmas Audience - part 1a and 1b from lizdavies 1064 days old

We took the Nursery children to see performances by older children in school today. We had a lovely morning, taking the am children to see Year 1's production ...

One each from lizdavies 1072 days old

We've been getting on with Christmas crafts today at nursery and it all goes to show that what we usually do is right, and quite honestly "one each to ...