Cars and trucks and things that go

Off to Dunfermline today, to give a hand to A and her kids.  With the eldest now in school, a visitor to the house allows D, no. 2, to up the vehicular ante, and fit as many transport books as he can. D’s specialist subject is tractors, for which he will happily count up to …

Cremola Foam: the taste of summer

Overwhelmed as I am with receiving comments, I know that what you really wanted to read about was Cremola Foam. I have a Useful Notebook that gets carried around, partly so I can work out which children’s book to buy for which new arrival and that kind of thing, but it’s useful for ideas about …

And now from our reporter in…

Haven’t been able to file a report from abroad before.  I’m sure it ought to be very exciting, full of drama and tension. Except I’m in Bonn, the town where it was said, by one of the diplomats in residence at the time, that ‘every day was a little like Sunday’. It’s certainly felt like it …

Travel in the real world

About time I put another post out there, keen to extol blogging as I am yet not doing much of it just now… Blame spring cleaning, early summer cleaning, oh there’s another cold snap, cleaning and general furniture shifting.  But, for a change, blame holiday…where we deliberately kept off-line. Actually, this gets easier if you …