It recently occurred to me that I should write about being a mother, or at the very least about becoming a mother. Because it is something learned, something you work at each day. We are given the title of ‘parent’ as soon as a child is born and that takes a while to sink in. […]
Open Call. Take a visit. Connections between sea and ceramics. Read about salt-glazing. Watch the flicker of the fluorescent strip light. On, off, on, off. Ideas bounce. Sketch outlines. Wander. Explore the textures. From a distance. Lacking the tactile quality. Photograph the artefacts. Glass windows. Glass shelves. Reflections. Ethereal. Scout shore. Hidden treasures. None uncovered. […]
Aunty Tara + Lilly’s birthday. Baked a carrot cake, bought some daffodils. Lunch at Great Grandad’s. Met two week old Arthur ! So tiny. Ruben has started to stroke people’s faces. Interacting differently. First swimming lesson. Key words; kick, splash + ready, go ! Floated in the water on his own, minimal support. He wasn’t […]
Pancakes for breakfast on Sunday + hung out in the vans all day. Tom ripped out the interior of Iggy + found damp under boards. Took Pearl for an MOT, and found the side section had rusted through – which means the scrapyard, unfortunately ! Spent Monday morning with cousins, at Nanny’s house. We all […]
Ruben’s eyes seem to have lightened this week + his hair is making progress too ! Had dinner at Great Grandad’s as Great Aunt Nicky is visiting. We were given a video baby monitor from Kevin. Set that up + put Ruben to bed at 8.30. It was so wonderful to be able to watch […]
Met Shane, the Border Collie, Aunty Tara’s new dog. And Uncle Alan ! Went for a walk to the local walled garden, which is beautiful, with Tom. Spotted our first snowdrops of the year. I went to yoga for the first time + loved it. Whilst Nanny looked after Roo at Great Grandad’s. We rushed […]
Visited Hen Gigi, wished her happy birthday and gave her cards. Took Iggy for a clean in Llechryd (best car wash around). Visited Great Grandad a couple of times. Dropped Poppet off with Nanny. Put all of Ruben’s first size and 0-3 month clothes into storage ! Unpacked the gifted 3-6 month clothes from Fraser. […]
Saturday was spent with Grandad + Grandma Ireland; brunch at PHX, dropped into the city to do some shopping (Ruben wasn’t very impressed!), KC Peaches for coffee + cake and Eddie Rocket’s for dinner. Ruben was much happier in Eddie Rocket’s! Sunday was spent in the Irish countryside, a trip to a beautiful, independent café […]
This week started with meeting Grandma in Aberystwyth, after she had been shopping for the house with Great Uncle Iestyn. The rest of the weekend was spent at home, relaxing with Tom. Just us three together ! Iggy passed his MOT. Ruben started on baby rice for breakfast. He isn’t quite convinced by it but […]
Ruben + I visited Hen Gigi’s house. She kindly gave Ruben a hand-knitted, stuffed rabbit, named ‘Portland’, in the hope that Ruben will follow in her footsteps and be a part of the same secondary school house. I had no idea that this was a family tradition, to be in Portland, so I ended up in […]
How has it only been a week since I talked about Ruben’s first Christmas ?! That feels like a million years ago. We spent New Year in our dressing gowns, watching the fireworks in London on the television with Aunty Siân + moaning about the government’s use of tax money (I’m pretty sure we do […]
Ruben’s very first Christmas ! It was spent with myself, Tom, Nanny, Aunty Siân, Aunty Tara, Poppet (Nanny’s dog) + cousins Rhys, Leon and Lilly. We woke up at our usual time of around seven for his first feed of the day as Ruben’s cousins patiently waited for us to get up. They told us about the […]
I’ve been wanting cherry scones for some time now, so I decided to bake some + take them over to ‘Great Grandad’ Cyril’s house as a treat. Aunty Siân, Tom, Cyril, Ruben + I sat around the kitchen table enjoying baked goods and cups of tea. Ruben has been much less sensitive this week, I […]
Ruben + I travelled home in Francois at the beginning of the week. We still hadn’t managed to buy a Christmas tree, so we made our way to Newcastle Emlyn to pick this year’s tree ! It was spitting with rain by the time we got there, making the pine scent even more potent. We […]
Aunty Tara arranged a trip for Ruben to meet Santa Claus (who had a very Welsh accent). We travelled to Carmarthen in Iggy the VW T4 + went on the steam train to Santa’s grotto. When we reached the platform, I accidentally dropped my camera onto the train tracks ! The driver kindly jumped straight […]
