Churchdoors beach, Manobier, Wales, UK

Mid August, mid-Summer.

Hop little rabbits, hop, hop, hop

This is taken on the green, opposite The Lamb pub in Nomansland, in the New Forest. All the kids know the actions to this song. I think that Andrew could just keep singing the second verse again and again, and perhaps they'd all calmly continue to lie on the ground...or am I dreaming?

Pembrokeshire holiday

First, the brief version of the holiday (entertaining for people NOT living in the UK). We went to a lot of lovely beaches during this holiday. But, in a bit of a typical UK Summer theme, we were rained off,
not once....

Not twice.....

But THREE times!!

I went for a lovely, refreshing, swim at this last beach - so good for the soul.

Weekend in the New Forest with friends

We camped for 3 nights with two other family friends, both with kids (Beatrice, and Maeve) the same age as William. It was loads of fun, if not the usual exhausting experience of life with two year olds. William really enjoyed sleeping in our tent.

"I do it"

William can now string three words together. We are getting to hear a lot of his new favourite phrase as he demands to do things himself now, rather than have us do them for him, or even help him.

I have a few pictures to update you with.
1. William at Millets Farm near Abingdon.


2. William and Daddy made ice lollies last week.

3. This is how William often sleeps at night these days – cuddling teddy and penguin. This photo was taken at midnight on 29th July. He usually has an arm around each toy as he goes to sleep, so we were pretty impressed that penguin was still getting cuddled a few hours later.

4. I’ve been having a domestic month, making raspberry jam, beetroot chuntney and 3 fruits marmalade.

5. We spent a weekend in Wales last weekend. There was a fete at Marjorie's nursing home, which had a bouncy castle that W loved playing on. W also had a lovely walk in a bog. We should have anticipated that William would sit down in the wet mud right at the beginning of the walk.....ah, muddy bottoms.

William and Andrew out in the meadow, exploring

William's birthday dinner

Clare and Jen came over to celebrate William's and Clare's joint birthday at our house on Friday night. William was happy to perform his favourite trick of the month for the camera.