the adlards

Brent came to dinner on Tuesday night. Josie really took to him …

Dan came to visit today and brought his Mum and Dad with him. It was good to catch up with the Midgleys - Dan’s growing fast and they’re all doing very well. There was also a spot of drain cleaning in my day; a blocked drain with a frozen scum layer over the top, but the […]

Perhaps most frustrating of all the words I May Not Use is the word “fart”. Apparently it’s unladylike (the word, not the action. Ummm. The word, not just the action? Oh I don’t know). So what are the alternatives?

I tore up half the carpet to find a crack of frightening proportions running the length of the room …

On the birth of Anthony on Wednesday 14 September.

The picture below belies the Nature of Things …

7am and all’s well … they don’t sleep much, but they are very cute …

Josie moving far too fast for me to catch her front-on with my phone. “Michelle, you’re a fairy, a star, and a saint all rolled into one.” “What? A fart?” She really is very quick. We woke still all full of colds and flu and exhaustion but, HEY!, it’s Bank Holiday weekend. We were in […]

If I thought that the mere fact of living abroad would render him immune to prosecution I would publish Tim’s pictures …

Lawrence Kenneth Harkness born Friday 12 August at 20.10