Hannah has a secret admirer

Soooo, I've just received this beautiful flower arrangement. Not from Dave, and don't know who else over here who knows it's my birthday today might have sent them. Anyone out there recognise these flowers?

Tilly finds her dead parents very inspirational

On Tuesday we get home from school as normal. Tilly stays outside and rings the doorbell.

Me: yes?
Tilly: [stage whisper] can we pretend that I'm a visitor?
Me: oh, ok. Er, hello visitor!
T: hello. My parents are dead and I came to stay with my grandma but she's not in so can I come in?
Me: !!!!!

This was only the start of a major 'dead parents' scenario that occupied Tilly for much of the time before tea and even inspired a new piece of music.

Dave is extremely very useful

A domestic rather than sporting triumph this week!  As you know, Dave is good at that triathlon business when he's not busy being excellent at work, and he can also provide a comfortable location for bedtime milk-drinking as far as Harriet's concerned.

But that's not all.

Happy anniversary to us!

No, not this one:

A brace of birthdays

Reuben and Harriet have just celebrated their 8th and 2nd birthdays respectively.  We've just about cleared up the shredded wrapping paper and I've stopped finding hundreds and thousands dotted around the kitchen, so here are some pictures from the celebrations.

Tilly is a novelist

Our Tilly is a very creative girl.  Just recently she got busy with the paper and sellotape and made her own book.  And as a blank book is clearly in need of a story, she sat down and wrote one.  Ladies and gentlemen, we present:

Help we need a title!  If you can't think of a title for your book, then this is what you call it.  Genius.

Reuben is a chip off the old block

I'm afraid this latest video of Semple Burdekin antics has been hanging around for over a month,