Posts in the "The Drivers" Category

  • The husband took the 3 year old for a shower one morning.
    The facilities were some of the best we’ve encountered during our camping trips.  The shower cubicles were spacious and fairly clean, the hairdryers so powerful that I looked like I’d just stepped out of a salon … albeit wearing pyjamas and walking boots.  Believe [...]

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  • On our fourth and final morning I took the 3 year old to the toilet.  Because the campsite was full there was a queue for the washing up, a queue for the showers and a queue for the toilets.  Luckily there was another toilet that not everyone was aware of so I took him in [...]

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  • The 5 year old claims not to like our new house. She quite clearly loves her bedroom and the garden, I think she feels that to say she likes this house would be like being unfaithful to the old house. Last week she made friends with the girls next door. After several [...]

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  • In the car, the 5 year old sat beside me …
    5 year old – A caterpillar turns into a cocoon, thrn a butterfly.  What does it turn into after that?
    Me – It stays a butterfly, until it dies
    5 year old aghast – But butterflies don’t die!
    Me – They do eventually
    5 year old thoughtfully – E [...]

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  • Our walk to school is fairly pleasant.  We wander along over the grass at the end of the road, past the houses with HUGE numbers, under the weeping willow and to the steps which lead to the train station and the snicket which goes to school.
    Every other day on the steps, sitting next to THE [...]

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  • The 3 year old has always loved bathtime. Being my bold adventurer he’s never been afraid of water going in his eyes and when swimming is not afraid to leap from the side of the pool in his usual kamikaze fashion.
    Last weekend he got a trampoline burn (a tiny friction burn) on the top [...]

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  • We have discovered that the safety net on the trampoline isn’t just to reduce limb breakages and save young lives. It’s an excellent gurning tool and we have been crying at the expense of our poor children with laughter.
    The pictures could be stills from horror movies … anyone of a sensitive nature look away [...]

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