tie dye!

got a kit from the charity shop for £1 and made new pj tops...this is lottie's

mummy's

hey man

meandering river

lottie and i got on the bus to eastbourne yesterday not knowing that it went through the seven sisters valley where the river twirls and bends and you go up the hill and the view is AMAZING

i thoroughly recommend a trip on bus route 12 where nature puts on a display worthy of awards



"When I was about twenty years old, I met an old pastor's wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn't believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. "But one day when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking--the first in his life. And she told him he would have to go outside and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. "He said to her, 'Mama, I couldn't find a switch, but here's a rock you can throw at me.' All of the sudden a mother understood how the situation felt from the child's point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. "The mother took the boy onto her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. Because violence begins in the nursery--one can raise children into violence."

~From a peace prize acceptance speech given by Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking

a wicked comment

remember, remember...

our guy was an effigy of the dog that attacked egon a few years back

(that dog is the reason egon goes on the defensive and isn't friendly to other doggies and has to wear a muzzle)

sparklers are one of the best and prettiest inventions ever

(alongside bubbles, glitter and cake)

bang goes my new lounge carpet

egon has a flea allergy that has got out of control and he needed to visit the doctor

£100 later and he is feeling better but my bank balance isn't

but our dude is worth it

halloween treats

disposable plastic gloves stuffed with popcorn

lottie got this for halloween

and made these...delicious with butter

it's not halloween without candycorn

so candycorn got put in the cake mix and topped with white chocolate and edible glitter and yet another candy corn