We’re coming to the end of a week spent in Devon and Cornwall. It has been quite an experiencing holidaying with an 11 week old! However, we managed to have a great time and visited Lanhydrock, a monkey sanctuary and the Eden Project, not to mention the picturesque seaside villages of Looe and Polperro. Here is my favourite picture, taken at the Eden Project. I suppose I didn’t really anticipate there being any problems other than a disruption to the nice routine we had going. What I failed to consider were the lack of child-friendly places for an 11 week…
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Yesterday I popped into the Cath Kidston shop in Covent Garden. I’d spotted some goodies in the latest catalogue that I wanted, especially the tin of travel sweets – perfect for our long drive to Cornwall tomorrow. I also picked up laundry and shoe bags and a pillowcase featuring planes which I’m hoping to make into a laundry bag for Edward. Watch this space!
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My hubby treated me to a lovely new Orla Kiely bag so I chose the punched stem rosemary bag. Today I sneaked out of the house and headed to Covent Garden to buy it (and the matching purse too!). Image taken from Orla Kiely website. No visit to Covent Garden is complete without a visit to Cath Kidston where I purchased some lovely goodies for our holiday to Cornwall. I even managed some celeb spotting, Louie Spence from Pineapple Dance Studio, before heading back to my lovely little boy!
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It didn’t take me long to choose a photograph for the theme of this weeks’ gallery. Today I scanned an old photograph album my mum gave me of my early years. I was getting a bit fed up of people saying how much Edward looks like his father so decided to look at some old photos to see if they were right. Anyway, I came across the picture of me and my sister sharing a bath in the 1970s (writing that makes me feel very old!) and I knew it summed up the theme perfectly. I don’t make friends easily.…
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Look what was waiting for me when I returned from the Isle of Wight yesterday – my lovely new Cath Kidston iphone cover. It’s almost perfect, the only part I don’t like is that it’s branded with the Cath Kidston logo on the inside – thankfully it can’t be seen when it’s on!
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I hate being photographed. I’m not sure when it started, but when I was looking through all the photos I’ve taken of Edward since he was born I realised there were only a couple of us together. Over the next few weeks I will rectify this. In honour of the theme of this week’s gallery: self-portrait I’ve chosen the following: a picture of me at the Royal Clarence in Exeter I LOVE photobooth! Me in a very stupid (but necessary) hat on a ferry off the Norwegian coast on honeymoon This post was written for Week 12 of Tara’s Gallery.…
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We’ve returned home to London for a couple of days and are now back on the Isle of Wight as my husband has an appointment with his consultant tomorrow. Since we’ve been at home it has finally been just the two us as my husband has gone back to work and we’ve had a couple of adventures to the local shops and Brent Cross.
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A couple of weeks ago I went to Mothercare to purchase a dummy clip. I know that people are divided on the issue of whether to give a child a dummy but we find it useful to help settle Edward at night. We are only planning on using it until Edward is 3 months old. My 6 year old niece still uses a dummy to help her sleep at night although she knows she shouldn’t be using one at her age! When I asked one of the shop assistants in Mothercare if the dummy clips they stocked were compatible with…
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The theme for The Gallery this week is: Men. Pictures of the men in your life. There are two men in my life, my lovely husband and brand new baby boy. In the short time since he was born (7 weeks!) I have managed to take more photographs of the baby than my husband during the years since we met and got together. In recognition of the only man who can put up with me I have found my favourite photographs of him: kite flying on the Isle of Wight persuading me a weekend on a canal boat in February…