A Life in the Making

With the day stretching in front of us and motorised transport at our disposal, we did what we always do...head to the sea. And like most days in Scotland, the rain threatened our excursion. But like most people who choose to live in these wet climes, we persevered (with a cake stop to wait out...

Ellis and Georgia are obviously having a synchronised growth spurt today.  Always a big eater, Ellis has eaten an entire 3 egg omlet, a piece of toast, a smoothie, a bowl of dried fruit and a granola bar and he's only been awake for three hours.  All of these were prepared whilest I was feeding a...

A few weeks ago, Kevin told me about showing off baby pictures to his work colleagues.  Apparently, they had commented that I wasn't in any of her photos and that I would really regret it if I didn't have at least a few of the two of us together. Of course, they were right.  So I insisted that Ke...

Notice the new blog layout? See these lovely granny squares? Dare I tell you that the photoshoot for said granny squares that took me an hour, including re-winding the balls of yarn and editing the photos? And I don't like the picture and actually contemplated retaking and re-editing them? ...

Oh, the joys of winter...we are never really sick here (you know except for 5 months of constant debilitating pregnancy-related nausea...), but it seems the Scottish wet and cold has entered the upper respiratory passages of Ellis and I.  In true toddler fashion, he is generally fine afte...