Thursday 28 February 2013

28th February

"The grannies on the bus all knit knit knit". Apparently Martha wants to learn to knit. I've suggested we could try sewing first. Next stop John Lewis for the biggest count binca they have! The Wheels On The Bus is the March nursery song. I have a sinking feeling we'll be hearing even more of it than usual...!

Wednesday 27 February 2013

27th February

A face drawn in the bathroom mirror condensation by Mini-M. It has eyes, a nose and a mouth! Her favoured drawing mediums for accuracy seem to be steamy mirrors and magnadoodles. Paper and pens is still all about the crazy scribbling!

Tuesday 26 February 2013

26th February

"Daddy do you fit in the box?" Not really...

25th February

Not even an emergency can of Irn Bru picked up my mid-afternoon energy levels after Mini-M getting up for the day at 03:20am on Sunday morning then 05:20am on Monday. Zzzzzzzzz!

Sunday 24 February 2013

24th February

Mini-M filling in her first customer comment card 'Dear Cafe Nero, your apple juice was nice but why do you offer to make porridge with soya milk if the oat mix has regular milk powder in it? It's a good job my Mum asked otherwise I'd have a very sad tummy' (I make have taken a few liberties with the translation...)

Saturday 23 February 2013

23rd February

Strategic indoor craft activity at Alnwick Garden between snow showers!

Friday 22 February 2013

22nd February

In the Masons Arms in Rennington near Alnwick after a long day - is 7:45pm too early for bed?!

Thursday 21 February 2013

21st February

Mini-M's toddler toes sporting some rainbow felt tip pen "nail polish" (at her request). Gladly it washed off an hour or so later in the shower!

Wednesday 20 February 2013

20th February

Today's photo is for Mr E's benefit to prove that there is indeed a pond with ducks, swans etc at Heriot Watt Uni campus. I know it exists - it's on my lunchtime wandering route but he has seemed rather unconvinced every time I've mentioned it! I'm not hallucinating duck ponds ;-)

Tuesday 19 February 2013

19th February

Today's nursery artwork takes finger painting to a new level - I give you Mini-M's dismembered arm print. She is very proud of it and it has pride of place on our cupboard door, where it distresses me slightly every time I catch sight of it!!!

Monday 18 February 2013

18th February

Sunshine at stirling station. I was waiting for a train home after some work meetings - such a sunshiney day today but frost again tonight.

Sunday 17 February 2013

17th February

Just finished the week 3 assignment of the online Coursera nutrition course I'm doing. This week has been all about diabetes - next week it's cancer. Informative if not exactly uplifting... And now it's time for bed!

16th February

Weeee! Blurry fun playing on the swing in Granny and Grandad E's garden during a weekend trip down to Hawick.


Friday 15 February 2013

15th February

Friday night entertainment - watching cdza videos on YouTube with the folks!

Thursday 14 February 2013

14th February

Mini-M was determined to dry her hair tonight all by herself. Problem is she can hardly lift the hairdryer! Here she is in full two-handed leaning backwards tongue-stuck-out-in-concentration pose! Every few seconds you could here the clunk as she bashed her forehead but she wouldn't be deterred!

Tuesday 12 February 2013

12th February

Too late to still be up when the alarm is set for 06:20am - but on the plus side we now have our summer holiday booked - Brittany here we come!

Monday 11 February 2013

11th February

I won! I never win competitions - admittedly that's probably more due to the fact that I rarely enter them than a run of bad luck, but I entered one and won - a copy of the newly published McSween's Haggis Bible which arrived in the post today.

Sunday 10 February 2013

10th February

We don't often cook a Sunday roast but we did today, with a middle Eastern flavour: slow cooked lamb with pomegranate molasses, beet balls, almond and pomegranate pilaf and steamed greens. Yum!

Saturday 9 February 2013

9th February

Forward rolls in action. Mini-M can almost do it on her own but needs a helping hand with the final tipping over!

Friday 8 February 2013

Thursday 7 February 2013

7th February

Tonight after tea we had the biggest grapes I have ever seen! Good find Mr E!

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Tuesday 5 February 2013

5th February

Tonight there's no snow but this morning when I opened the curtains there was a moderate coating of white and some early morning ice scraping was required before I could head off for work.

Monday 4 February 2013

4th February

Mini-M's first time playing with the big lego (or indeed the small lego...). Mr E had fun too!

Sunday 3 February 2013

Saturday 2 February 2013

Friday 1 February 2013

1st February

Holiday planning to counteract the miserable weather lack of daylight and general doldrummy-ness of the back end of this week. Roll on spring!

31st January

I didn't take a picture today. I didn't even manage a month without slipping up! Oh well - a spare photo from the day before instead of Princes Street in the rain from the top deck of the no. 34 bus going to work