Category: Diary
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Meeting up with friends who have kids in winter..
Aargh when you have kids someone is always ill! As a consequence my social life during winter consists almost entirely of standing in the drizzle at a playground chatting to other parents in the short window one has before someone’s child screams “I’m cold! I want to go home!”/it rains.
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Fussy eater
My 7-year-olds daughter’s eating habits are driving me crazy. Add in a 3-year-old who won’t eat pasta or white potatoes and you have a recipe for disaster at every mealtime.
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Willingen
For the Autumn half term holiday, we went to a family friendly hotel in Willingen, Germany which is a four-hour drive from our house in Brussels. We left the day after the girls had participated in a Halloween trick or treat parade round our neighbourhood (so the three-year-old had had sweets for the first time…
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A day under a flight path..
I’ve written about this many times before, but we live under a so-called emergency flight path that should only be used when there is a North wind above a certain strength. Unfortunately, it’s often in use much more than that, and the only way to describe how it feels when it is in use above…
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Peach
I recently put together all the cartoons I’ve done featuring my second child (her nickname is Peach) and had them printed out as a book on smartphotos.be. I tried reading it to her, but she doesn’t yet seem to like it!
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Summer 2022
Summer already feels like a lifetime ago, but here is my cartoon recap of our 3-week mini tour of the UK to see friends and family. My memories of it are a bit marred by the fact we caught Covid at some point near the end of the holiday, and we did end up spending…
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Covid with kids
Covid finally got us, two and a half years into this bloody pandemic. 2 days after returning from England for our summer holiday I started feeling more tired than usual (hard to judge when you have two small children and feel constantly tired anyway) and had a slight sore throat. I’m not sure whether I…
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