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What Arthur learnt at school today

Happy New Year in Chinese Tweet

Bath night

Swoosh splash Tweet

A SIGG bottle for Arthur

I got this really cool bottle for Arthur, called a SIGG bottle. It’s a metal flask that’s going to keep his drinks fresh and cool while he’s at school or out of the house. Here’s a picture: It’s made of a single piece of aluminium, extremely lightweight and looks really neat. It has a special…

Playing with the WordPress app

Just seeing how the app posts photos Tweet

Lantern parade tomorrow

So, Arthur and I have been making a willow lantern over the last couple of weeks. Well, it was a couple of Sundays really, the Isle of Man Arts Council organised these sessions for people to come and learn how to make lanterns, and we took advantage of them. Here is a photo of the…

Back Home

We’re back home in the Isle of Man, and we’ve had a really sunny day today. It’s funny how we seem to have taken wet weather to Malta with us, and brought some sun back. Maybe we’re just lucky that way. Anyway, it’s good to be back; the water is softer, the weather is cooler,…

Kids at play

It’s great to watch the kids play, especially the twin who are just starting to get to grip with things. They’re getting more mobile too, Alexander took 6 uninterrupted steps yesterday! Their manual dexterity is getting better too, so the range of different things they can play with is getting wider. The house it also…

Arthur at play

I was just thinking about how quickly kids grow; so I thought I’d take a  quick minute of Alexander messing around. Check it out: He’s just at that age where everything needs to go in his mouth: food, toys, jigsaw pieces; it’s a good thing we don’t have loose diamonds running around, or you know…

Clothes for the twins

A clothes merchant in Porto, Portugal

Image via Wikipedia The house seems to be full of clothes at the moment, but if you think about it, we’re a family of 5 now, we were 3 only a year ago. So if you just think about how many baby clothes we have running around at the moment, well, there are quite a…

Our 11th Anniversary

It was our 11th Anniversary a few days ago so we took the opportunity, as you do to exchange gifts. The theme for 11th anniversary was steel, which meant I couldn’t go for one of those pretty corsets or anything sexy. (It was steel for crying out loud!). So instead, I managed to find some…