It was a wonderfully sunny and warm Saturday. We spent the entire afternoon outside in our garden after returning from the swim lessons.
Out came the water squirters and model canal. The kids also helped mummy with some planting of spring flowers around the garden — and watering them (use your imagination).
Of course, what [...]

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Today was Tosha’s first swim lesson. His lesson at 10:20am at St. Swithun’s School’s pool was at about the same time as Tolii, Angus and Rupert’s lesson. And, Katie joined the swim school this term too!
All this and you’d think things would go, well, swimmingly.
Daddy and mummy decided to see if just one [...]

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We’ve reached that stage of parenthood where we feel reasonably confident in ourselves; and more importantly, in starting to leave our two kids to themselves a little bit more. Heck, Tolii is four and a half now, and surely he can sort out the odd problem or two. And if our two year [...]

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Mummy arrived home this afternoon from the European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna, Austria.
She picked up the kids from nursery, who were trying hard not to show how excited they were to see her.
Tosha was fast asleep on the nursery’s chair and then sauntered over to her; Tolii finished what he was doing and then [...]

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What a day Sunday was for us!
First, the morning was a chance for us all to play in the freshly fallen snow. Then the afternoon was spent in the tropics of the greenhouses at The Living Rainforest, located just north of Newbury. God help you find your way through the A34/M4 roundabout [...]

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We awoke to the normal thump, bump, prrr, ouch! that is our lot. Tolii and Tosha, plus our cats jumped into our bed to wake us up.
After a bit of bouncing (and granted, a short snooze after we calmed them down); we decided it was time to get up and open the blinds.
Oh my [...]

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Today was Tolii’s last swim lesson for this term. He earned his “Duckling Award Grade 4” certificate from the Judy Sporle swim school!
More importantly for Tolii, he got a badge!
The “exam” was last week; so today was a bit of a practice session and a chance to have a bit of fun. Vicki took Tolii [...]

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Tolii’s rocket reached the planet Mars (its a reward chart). We had a reward that we were itching to give to the kids and this was a good reason to do so!
The reward is the Super Marble Run by Galt.
Daddy gave it to the boys this morning after they got dressed and had breakfast. [...]

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A young couple is moving in next door this weekend: They are renting the place for a year from the two blondes who bought the place last autumn. We don’t know why the blondes moved out; but Andrew is very disappointed. He had already bragged to many people about living next door [...]

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Tolii was complaining about the back right side of his mouth earlier in the week; so we made an appointment with the Whitchurch dentist that just took over the business in The Square (from an Australian dentist with stereotypical Australian manners; Daddy now sees a dentist in Fleet!).
Tolii went to a dentist last year, one [...]

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Tolii said he was disappointed that no jokes were done at his nursery in celebration of April Fool’s Day.  Daddy had warned him to be on guard for some, not knowing if any of the staff would have a little bit of fun with the kids or not.
So, daddy told him this joke tonight, instead:
“Why [...]

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Tolii went back to George’s house after last Thursday’s story time at Whitchurch Primary School.
As a reward for his very good behaviour, his mummy, Emma, gave both of them two little toy cars as treats.
Tolii thanked her, and then said, “But, what about Tosha?”
This floored Emma (and made her feel a bit ashamed, she said [...]

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Our wonderful, energetic, creative hurricane, otherwise known as Tosha, demonstrated his artistic DIY flair last week: See him here showing off his latest in wall-art.

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