We’re trying to go to London every couple of months for a weekend to do touristy things. Last weekend we went to see the Tower of London. It was pretty amazing going from the glass and skyscraper modern world – the ‘shard of glass’ is being built just opposite the entrance and is just one [...]
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Olivia is working towards getting her Brownie cooking badge. She made Toad in the Hole for us and Granny and Mike. Sausages and yorshire pudding rolled into one, if ever there was a dish made for Olivia!
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We went back to Spain at Easter. Olivia says she has forgotten all her Spanish and Catalan, but I think she does remember. We stayed with friends Dom and Eliza so Olivia spent her time catching up with her friend Ruby. We went back to the park in Sitges where Olivia had previously had a [...]
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How time flies, we have not been very good at keeping Olivia’s site updated, there’s only one post since her previous birthday! This year Olivia got two lovely rabbits called Cookie and Flopsy. Cookie is black and is very friendly, Flopsy is light brown and is more timid. They’re sisters and when they’re let loose [...]
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Not sure why some of these allow a thumbnail and some don’t, you’ll have to click on the title links to see some of them, click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version girl with flowers lion Dad (Doug)
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Olivia’s school broke up in the middle of June and she doesn’t go back until the middle of September – which is a long time to be entertained! She spent the first couple of weeks catching up on sleep but got bored towards the end of it. Gabe had been doing a club (which she [...]
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Olivia is becoming more creative generally and taking a big interest in writing, reading, drawing etc. Here’s a recent pic.
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I don’t remember the blue lines on the original, I think they may be a side effect of crinkled paper being scanned, but either way the effect is a little scary!
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It’s a belated post as a result of being locked out of Olivia’s site but we had a nice time staying with Olivia’s cousins Izzy and Frankie. On the day we took Gabe and Olivia out for a horse ride and then to a pizza restaurant. Frankie and Izzy were at school. When they came [...]
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