Blog? What blog??

. . . .ah yes - this one.

Well, it's summer, and the children play, and Jeremy does DIY, and I feel guilty about not doing the washing-up. That's about it, really.

Well, I guess there were the Perseids - Jeremy and I lying on the trampoline at eleven o'clock at night, not nearly well wrapped up enough, staring into the light-polluted sky and marvelling at the unparalleled beauty of the aeroplane lights - a major benefit of living so close to a flight path. Our viewing was totally undistracted by random shooting stars, thank goodness. They get so in the way of a decent bout of plane-spotting, dontcha find?

Sid painted her fingers and toes - when I say 'painted her fingers and toes', I do mean 'painted her fingers and toes'. On each digit, she started at her middle knuckle and plastered purple sparkly goo all the way to the end. What slightly scares me is that I don't know where she did this. Am I going to find a crusty lump of ugh on a Turkish rug? On the wooden floorboards? Smeared over a sofa or the curtains? In the library, heaven forbid?

Did I mention that Kit had a trial Karate lesson at the end of last term? Did I further mention that Beri, a couple of days after this, wanted to know if he could join in? So last Thursday, off we went to watch the brothers HA! and UG! and HAI! their way through a class together. Kit, bless him, took very good care of Beri, (drawing on his VASTLY greater experience of karate lessons, obviously) positioning him so he could see, repeating the sensei's instructions, and being fantastically big-brotherly.

Oh and yes yes yes! - Sid decided, in no uncertain terms, that she had had ENOUGH of an overnight nappy, and could she not, please? Based on the fact that in the morning her nappy was never less than VERY soggy with pee, I had my misgivings, oh yes. I gave in on the understanding that Jeremy dealt with the one-in-the-morning soggy bedding roust-out. To my amazement, it's been ten days now, and not one accident. (The same cannot be said for the daytime, however . . .) So it's only Beri now. Gulp.