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Paddling
Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Assume That My Kid Would Inevitably Be the Soaking Wet and Muddy One// bloody freezing //It's been a few weeks of upheaval here recently. Since we came back from...
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I Don't Care About Your Royal Baby (Except Apparently I Do)
// this is not a picture of a royal baby, this is a picture of a wooden duck //Apparently the Duchess of Cambridge (Princess Kate if you're American?) is due to give birth to a royal heir sometime soon...
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Tough Crowd
// the sandals/shades/gloves combo was ALL him //It's started. Not even two and Mister G has already twigged that I am not the unsurpassable pinnacle of all things in all respects (or at least a tie...
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28 // 52
// Mister G with bucket, grandparents' garden //"A portrait of Mister G, once a week, every week, in 2013"Mister G skiddles with bucket.Hot weather (hot weather!) means even more time than usual spent...
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What I Wore: DeadPants Edition
What I wore: grainy phone pictures of old crap. This is not [shopping] inspiration. // unflattering, drop-crotch Al Swearengen underwear, approx.£20 All Saints bargain bucket, 2008 // birkenstock...
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Molto Bucolico: Peas, Tadpoles and Cows
// BABY FROG //I love the word bucolic. Like 'pulchritude' and 'christian science' it sounds like the exact opposite of what it means, like bubonic vomit rather than hazy countryside. A couple of...
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29 // 52
// beetle friend //"A portrait of Mister G, once a week, every week, in 2013"Mister G is fascinated by small, moving things at the moment - bees, flies, ants, ladybirds, caterpillars, butterflies and,...
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Parklife As Per
// in the magnolia tree //I know, I know, we live in central London, my favourite city and one of the best in world (ahem, bias) and yet I seem to do my damnedest to hang out in the parts that don't...
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30 // 52
// Mister G climbs //"A portrait of Mister G, once a week, every week, in 2013"Duck spotting on the Serpentine, G climbs the railings every time and would go right over the top to join the birds given...
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A Duck Tale
// BABY DUCKS //So this is kind of an old story, but since it's up there in the top three Exciting Things that have happened to me this year - seriously, if I was the type to write an annual Christmas...
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Vacanza
We arrived in Sicily last night and I have wifi on my phone at PA's mum's house where we are today and I am sitting in the sun with a tumbler of 'artisanal' (ie rough rough rough) red wine while PA and...
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One Year
"Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death"Tom Robbins, Still Life With WoodpeckerOne year of marriage, twenty one months of parenting, three and a half years since...
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Pace
Simple things.We have slipped pretty easily into a routine here - pared back to the essentials and lazy in the heat - coffee, swim, lunch, nap, swim, ice cream, dinner. And repeat.Up with Mister G and...
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Paper
First anniversaries are apparently for paper. And a measure of heavy-handed symbolism. Like first birthdays, celebrated out of all scale to their hopeful proportion of the whole, I feel a bit like...
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Thoughts From 6.20AM // The Visual Onomatopoeia of Swordfishing
The light really is beautiful first thing in the morning. And so is the water. And the sky. I'd still rather another hour's sleep though, really. But Mister G is a lark here. Also an owl, later....
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Thoughts from 5.20AM
I have less of them.I'm in love with this window. Also with Mister G. But only one of them is enough to get me out of bed at 5.20am, the other just sweetens the pill a little.
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Thunder // Vinegar
I want to write a science fiction novel here......set in an underground nocturnal bakery exploring the collective memory of yeast in culture. Physical kneading in an automated world. I'll call it Pain...
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Geckos // Crabs // Lions
Mister G makes lots of small animal friends here. The geckos are my favourite, though I don't do any of the holding myself. And after less than a week's practice G can catch his own baby crabs off the...
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The House in Pace
I love this house. Built around the turn of the last century by a fisherman, it came to be owned by a bird seller who won it one night in a game of cards (sure, if I were to make up a story about a...
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Feelings About Birkenstocks
(this is not a picture of a Birkenstock, this is a picture of a boat)I have all the feelings about the current Birkenstock trend (that I learned of via eastsidebride, like most important things) Most...
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33 // 52
"A portrait of Mister G, once a week, every week, in 2013"31 and 32 to be added back once we are home and I have the photos on my computer. In the meantime, a favourite from the last week. There are a...
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This Is Not A Museum
Or at least not one related to its initial intention.We drove back toward town a couple of days ago and decided to combine our trip to collect drinking water from the communal fountain with visiting...
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Gratuitous Beach Pictures
Because that's mainly what we've been doing. I am pleased to say that we have managed to maintain our unambitious daily routine solidly over the last couple of weeks and have loved it. We're winding...
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There's No Place Like
// shiny shiny detail from cover of Boat Magazine London issue //aaaaaand we're home.We made it back at midnight on Friday and have spent the weekend settling back into London, welcomed with tears of...
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(Un)Found Doors: Sicily I
There are so many great doors here - from the uniformly blue ones of the fisherman's lodges on the beach (I don't know why they are all blue, but I like it) to weathered wooden shutters on houses,...
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