Daisy's Christmas List

This is Daisy's Christmas List, in her own fair hand.



And Marc has kindly transposed it into something slightly more understandable.

IDIY frthe crims
(Dear father Christmas)
I wont a dol theat walcs and
(I want a doll that walks and)
Torc has a gag theat has her
(talks and that has a bag that has her)
cLothes In
(clothes in)
I WonT hugr hIPOs game
(I want the ‘Hungry Hippos’ game)
I WonT a geL gaggay
(I want a “Belle’ Barbie)
namd Bel
(named Belle)
PS: I WIL BeIn france
(PS: I will be in France)
and can I have a prinses comic
(and can I have a Princess comic)


The doll that walks and talks and has a bag with all her clothes in comes from the Enid Blighton classic The Enchanted Wood. When the land of birthdays comes along and it just happens to be Bessie's birthday, all the folk from the faraway tree get to go and have a party. Bessie or Fanny (i forget which one) wishes for a doll that walks and talks all on it's own, and she gets this darling little doll that carries her own bag with a change of clothes in it.

Girls posing

I had to take a new passport photo for Daisy.
What with her being 5 now, and child passports only lasting for 5 years, it was necessary for our up and coming christmas trip to France.


After Daisy's passport, the girls posed as they like to do, though mostly Iris just seems to be trying bite Daisy's nose.

Devon in half term

Even though we were sick, we did make it to Devon, i thought in true Jane Austin style the sea air would do me good, and it did.

These are photographs from a walk along Broadsands Beach which is very near to Brixham.

Auntie Vicky and the girls kind of recreating The Beatles Help album, kind of.
Our sand face.
Daisy collecting stones for our sand face.
Waves
More waves
Some kind of baywatch re-enactment, involving Daisy the lifeguard.

He is saved.
Tilly the rock dog.
Tilly and Barney
Tilly jumping in the air for the ring (she's old as well)
Tilly recovering.
Looking out to sea.

We don't like our hamster anymore

I am very sorry to say that we don't like our hamster anymore.
It has bitten Daisy a couple of times, me at least once, and i think Marc too.
I wore woolly gloves last time i got it out and it tried to bite the gloves.

It is not so much a pet, but a caged animal, as it won't sit in your hands, it just wants to get away, bloody vermin.

I feel the hamster has to go.

He was free, so i shall try to give him away on freecycle.

Trouble is the girls will want another pet, do you think we could get away with a fish?

Some half term

We have mostly been ill.
yuk.

Iris' two favourite toys

Iris loves Russian Dollies, she currently has two sets, and Iris loves the wooden dolls house.
She will play for hours on her own (well sometimes it feels like hours) with these two toys.

Recently, Polly Pocket and Playmobile have been getting in on the action too.





Iris did not approve of the way i was positioning these Russian dollies for these shots, as soon as i was finished she changed it all.

The Harvest Festival

Daisy's school and Iris' nursery walked down the to local church (which happens to be opposite our house) to be part of the Harvest Festival.

It was very sweet.
The reception class sang a song about a big red tractor.
Daisy's class told the story of the Enormous Turnip.
and older children told poems.

A few songs were song too but i have forgotten what they were now, something Harvesty related i'm sure.

This is Iris arriving at the church with her nursery.
And this is Daisy right in the middle (in case you can't spot her) amongst all her classmates telling a very animated story about a very stubborn turnip.

'Peter' becomes 'Woody', becomes 'Hamster'

He is officially called Hamster now, and sometimes even Hamperster.

Sorry this is all i could get of him.


I will try to get better soon.

Issy came to visit

We looked after our neighbours dog on Monday and Tuesday, she stayed overnight and was as good as gold, we didn't hear a peep out of her.

Thankfully the weather was lovely so it made dog walking a pleasure, i'm not sure dog walking would be such a pleasure in the rain.

Peter becomes Woody

Apparently Peter Pan has had his name changed to Woody.

Still haven't taken a photo of him, he's very very quick and kind of slippery yet furry.

We have a hamster

The girls really wanted a pet, i wasn't so keen, but when i saw a hamster cage advertised on freecycle, i nabbed it double quick, knowing full well that one of Daisy's school friends 'Mark' had lots of baby hamsters needing homes.

School friend Mark's mummy Tanya gave us a baby male Russian dwarf hamster yesterday and it is now settling into it's new home.
It is called Peter Pan, although Iris really wanted to call it Ariel the little mermaid.
Iris isn't that keen on Peter Pan either, but as long as we use it's full show name of 'Peter Pan Fluffy Fluff' then she is ok.

I think we should have called it Gimli, seeing as it's a dwarf and it's quite hairy.
Gimli is in Lord of the Rings.


When little Peter plucks up enough courage to show his face then i'll take a picture of him.

Pony riding with The Hamiltons

Here are lots of photographs of girls (mostly Daisy) riding a rather rotund pony called ... hmmmm i can't remember his name, but he was a boy pony and very placid.

What on earth was his name, hopefully it will come to me soon.

Rachel leading the pony with Freya on his back.

Iris didn't want to go on the ponies back at all, she was a bit scared of the pony.
Iris keeping a safe distance away from the pony, with Josh.
Pretty Freya with a crusty nose.
This is only about 15 mins walk from their house.
It's amazing isn't it.
Back up the hill away from the lovely little beach and river.
Daisy very pleased with herself on a pony.


For some reason i have no pictures of Pippa on the pony even though she rode it just as much as Freya and Daisy, Pippa loved riding the pony and basically cried all the time that she was off the pony, Pippa really loves riding ponies.

Thank god Daisy hasn't really mentioned it since, even though she really loved it too.

Visiting The Hamiltons

We went a visiting The Hamiltons last weekend (26th & 27th Sept) and had a lovely time, well most of us had a lovely time, Marc came down with a nasty sickness bug that had him up in the night and in bed for most of the day on Sunday, poor Marc.
He's only just recovering now.
Subsequently, Iris was sick once in the night both on Sunday & Monday and then Daisy was sick last night four times.
Sickness bugs are a pain in the bottom, the washing that goes with it really sets you back. Dreadful i tell you.
I've been ok, fingers crossed and all that.

Anyway the girls had a fabulous time with The Hamiltons, Daisy gets on very well with Freya and Iris is just starting to play with Pippa now that they are both 3.

Here are some photographs of them all playing in the lanes, Rachel and Josh's lanes are virtually empty so it's great for us all to walk up and down picking blackberries and sloes at our leisure.
Which reminds me i must find a recipe for Sloe Gin... oh here is one i just found.
http://www.sloe.biz/

(More photos to follow tomorrow of Daisy on a pony.)

Daisy is the eldest, she is 5 months older than Freya, Pippa and Iris are only about 10 days apart in age.

Iris' birthday

Oh i forgot to mention that it was Iris' birthday whilst we were away in London.
She was 3.
Happy birthday to big girl Iris.

Here she is reading her favourite book which we bought just before we left the big smoke under the promise that we would probably get a dog.
We haven't gotten a dog, yet.
Probably won't get a dog for a while.

This book is one of those little Collins books of 130 popular breeds of dogs.
Both girls love this book, Iris especially loves this book at the moment.
She likes to find Tilly and Bentley dogs in there, and then show me her favourite dog, which changes quite often. Barney dog isn't in there for some reason.