Julie's Boggle

Christmas 2008 feels like something I need to sit down and think about.  It was most enjoyable, but also went so quickly once it started!
With Tom’s schedule being somewhat more flexible at the moment, we originally planned to avoid the traffic by leaving on the Monday of the Christmas week.  Then a nasty 24-hour bug [...]

Communication with babies is always rather hit and miss in my opinion.  They all develop at different rates, and even when they do understand the words, there’s still no guarantee that they’ll modify their behaviour accordingly!
While various people have tried to assure me that babies “understand more than you think”, I confess I’ve remained sceptical [...]

Here we stand at the dawn of a new year: the first day of the first working week of 2009.  Or rather, the last day of the first week, because the rest of the week just, er, disappeared while I wasn’t looking.
I don’t personally buy into the whole New-Year’s-resolution-culture, but it does seem [...]

Life is never dull, especially if you live in a converted Victorian house whose structure and fittings are anything from 0 to 120 years old. Our most recent adventure has been tracking down (over a period of months!) a leak coming through our bathroom ceiling light fitting.
We started by suspecting our own plumbing, and [...]