New Years Eve trip

  • First frost/snow in Belgium this winter on the 31st Dec so we made a mini snowman
  • The accommodation said it was ‘family friendly’ but with these stairs up to the apartment I have to disagree!
  • In St Pierre park in Beauraing on New Years Day
Beauraing in the Ardennes

At the end of 2020 we took a little trip to Beauraing in the Ardennes and stayed in a little self-catered apartment attached to the owner’s main home. I don’t think we will ever stay there again as the layout made it quite tricky with the girls and none of us were able to sleep well, but it did at least make us appreciate getting back home to our house when previously we’d been feeling quite cooped up at home! Roll on 2021..

Cartoon diary

  • The plums birthday was a week before they announced the first lockdown in Belgium
  • Her birthday party was the last normal time we had
  • No real friends to play with, just snails
  • Dark times during the first lockdown
  • I wasn’t feeling so great just before Christmas so had a covid test, thankfully it came back negative
A few cartoon sketches from my 2020 diary

One of my new years resolutions is to continue doing a sketch a day in my diary…hoping this year they will be less covid lockdown related more painting and climate action related!

Nicknames

  • When she’s on a mission
  • The outdoor ranger
  • She loves deliberately flinging things off her high chair and then saying ‘Uh oh’
  • In the bath
  • When she’s being cute
  • Kyee is what she calls Skye, her sisters favourite toy dog
  • When she’s being naughty
The many personas of Isabel

Our second daughter Isabel doesn’t often get called Isabel..

January guests

  • Travelling in style on the Eurostar
  • Fine dining
  • First swim
  • 5 days apart in age
Sophie comes to Brussels

Way way back in BC time (Before Corona) my friend Elly visited us with her daughter Sophie who is only five days older than Peach. I’ve been meaning to draw this cartoon of the visit ever since.

Trip to the Belgian coast

  • Very windy by the sea
  • Blankenberg
  • Starting Peach early with drawing
  • Storm coming (De Haan beach)
  • Baby goats!
  • Four horsemen of the apocalypse in the background
  • Plum was obsessed with the trampoline and Peach got to swing
Lockdown family holiday

We had a few days on the Belgian coast during my daughter’s half term holiday. It was really nice to see the sea, and I would highly recommend the farm that we stayed on vakantiehoeve ‘t Goed ter Leeuwen. We’re going to go back in February again, and ha this time try not to accidentally let the goats out of their pen!