Alder's Tone

Not a line from The Full Monty, but a hint at both the event and the reaction last night. Far too cryptic to solve, so what happened?

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Posted by Lee at 7:37 PM | Storylink | Comments (2)

Over 20 years since I was last in Blackpool, I'd tried to get MOTS and the boy to go last year but didn't manage it with other things on around the time of the illuminations. We're just back from a couple of days there, after finding a cracking hotel.

Continue reading "Oh I do like to be beside the seaside" »

Posted by Lee at 10:19 AM | Storylink | Comments (0)

Congratulations!Congratulations to the Bowes on the birth of their second son last Sunday! Had Mr B sent the text to my personal phone rather than my work phone which has been switched off while I've been on holiday.... That has to be a record though, texts out within 25 minutes!

Hope to see the four of you soon.

Posted by Lee at 10:13 AM | Storylink | Comments (0)

At long last, the boy's vocabulary is starting to expand! There's nothing wrong with understanding (mental note of where the "off button" is - the bottom button on the TV), taking words in is fine, it's getting them back out again. We have now mastered the outward "ta", so not only is there a new word it's with manners too.

Although speech has been a recent worry, and he's well behind his peers, the Baby Whisperer suggests around a 10 word vocabulary at 18-24 months. He's comfotably in that, just need to read more to get those words up.

And hopefully something different to "toot-toot", AKA Thomas the Tank Engine!

Posted by Lee at 9:15 PM | Storylink | Comments (0)

I've recently seen the number of spam comments on the increase, and worringly a high number getting through teh MT plugins. So, as a temporary measure until I look at why the MT plugins are no longer as good at filtering this crap and fix it, I have made the seetings a little tighter on what is automatically published. Which means even comments from trusted commentors may be delayed.

Posted by Lee at 12:42 PM | Storylink | Comments (3)

Our family is in the process of becoming larger! I'm so chuffed!

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Posted by Lee at 5:05 PM | Storylink | Comments (2)

It's almost 3 weeks now since we left our boy home alone for the first time.

And before social services kick up a fuss, we had legitimate reason - we were out getting drunk.

Continue reading "Baby's first...Home Alone" »

Posted by Lee at 9:28 PM | Storylink | Comments (0)

It was parents night recently and we got the boy's first real report. MOTS when down to get the news, I feared it would be a "please see the head" type moment, but what she came back with was more than pleasing.

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Posted by Lee at 9:20 PM | Storylink | Comments (0)

Sorry, I mean a tree for the boy.

Our neighbours have a Rowan tree (native Scottish) at the foot of their drive, which is over the wall from our back garden. It has produced offspring, which has been growing as a weed (a weed is merely a plant growing in an unwanted place) next to our deck. The Rowan sapling as it is now is going to die where it is, it simply can't stay there.

Continue reading "A Boy for the Tree" »

Posted by Lee at 8:23 PM | Storylink | Comments (3)

I had a sly chuckle to myself this weekend, a routine stop-off during a long drive turned into a gauntlet run and a major empathy session.

Continue reading "Three's a crowd & empathy" »

Posted by Lee at 3:42 PM | Storylink | Comments (0)