They were having a lovely time colouring. Doing something together, nicely. I was just thinking “how lovely, I should catch this on camera”.
Then the boy got bored.
He decided it would be great fun to nick his sister’s pens.
It was pure fluke that I caught that look on his face seconds before he dug in and chaos broke out.
We think this one has struck lucky by growing under some leaves.
The boy can’t see it.
Let’s hope it doesn’t get too ambitious and start peeping out from those leaves. If it does it will probably mysteriously disappear, just like all it’s friends.
Posted in Veg
He assured me he was an alien. I think he had a definite air of frog to him.
Posted in The Boy
We went to our church’s summer fair today. The main aim was to raise funds for the Rainbow unit with a sweet tombola. I think my two fleeced me personally for more than I earned for the Rainbows. That wasn’t supposed to be how it went, but they look so pleased with themselves that I couldn’t really be cross.
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I curse dress-up days at school. I am the least creative person in the whole world (probably) and am also too tight to shell out on a new fancy dress costume every time. So far we’ve had prince/princess (which was easy for the girl and we borrowed a costume from a good friend for the boy) and pirates (for which I cobbled together something for the girl with judicious use of scarves and borrowed the prince/pirate costume again for the boy). Not to mention World Book Day, she was a witch, he was a pirate (again, yes, same outfit)
My heart did sink when I discovered the latest one was aliens. I had no desire to either sew a costume or glue foil to a cardboard box as I knew others would. Facepaints making both of mine itchy doesn’t help the cause either.
Fortunately, my very good friend M came to the rescue this time with a costume that the girl could use. It was originally a cookie monster costume but served just as well being an alien.
The boy was initially happy with some big eyes stuck to his butterfly deely-boppers and then decided to finish off the look with some wings and a tutu. He ran to school shouting “I’m a flying alien” all the way. Only one small boy commented on the fact that the boy was wearing a girl’s “dress”. The boy soon sorted him by pointing out, in quite a patronising fashion, that actually it was a tutu. Ha! Take that, small boy! Ahem.
I cursed this fancy dress day a lot less today that I usually would. It’s nice to have a lovely cheery picture to post today.
Oh, also I spotted this while trawling the net (well, ok, twitter) earlier today. It made me laugh out loud, quite a lot. I checked with the owner and he said it was ok to post a link, so here it is – The Man Who Sold The World
I started this blog three and a half years ago. With a certain amount of naivety it must be said.
If I took a picture of a child that wasn’t mine that I wanted to blog then I asked the mother, father or whoever was looking after the child at the time if it was ok to blog the picture. I can’t think of an instance where anyone refused. I’m not sure if it makes a difference or not, but it was mostly mothers I had contact with.
It seems, however, that that wasn’t enough. I’ve posted some pictures of a couple of children where I had permission from the mother to post. The father, however, has recently informed me that he is not happy for the pictures to be on my blog.
I understand his point of view. I didn’t ask his permission and they are his children too. Lesson learnt. From now on you will only see pictures of me and mine, or children where I have permission from both parents. Probably in writing.
While understanding his point of view, however, I can’t say that I’m not upset about it. This is my blog. I’m careful about what and who I post on it. If you know us personally then of course we’re identifiable and so are our friends whose pictures I put up. If you know us personally though, why would I worry?
I’ve put a lot of time and effort into this little blog and am quietly proud of it. It’s been three and a half years in the making and it charts our history in, I think, a charming way. To have someone ask me to take pictures down feels to me like a criticism of my judgement.
Anyway, that is neither here not there, so as you wander around my space you’ll see some pictures with children blanked out. I won’t take pictures off (unless they feature only a particular child) and I won’t re-write our history. I’ve also taken off links to another blog that I know features pictures of the children.
I just hope that’s good enough, (given that legal action has been mentioned).
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I have something to post which is hanging over me and sucking what little life there is from my blogging mojo. I need to make some changes to the blog first and I won’t get it done today so I can’t post until tomorrow at the earliest, hence this rather lacklustre filler post. Cute picture though.
Posted in The Girl
Do you remember these?
They took a couple of weeks but we finally have fully mohicanned caterpillars. I’m rather taken with them, even if they have lost their eyes*.
* and I’m totally blaming the slugs for that
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