Tag: <span>My Sunday Photo</span>

My Sunday Photo – Our Little Charlady

January 12, 2014

Earlier this week I was heading outside to get the washing in, and Georgie decided she must help me. I didn’t have a clue where her coat was so she was quickly bundled into her wellies, peppa pig hat & Mum’s fleece that was hanging up beside the door.

Out she came, wandering around the garden looking at things, and watching as I took the washing off the line. It has been incredibly windy lately, with weather warning after weather warning! Dad has these amazing stainless steel pegs that are like a workout for your hand every time you open and close them, and they do a fantastic job standing up to the wild Cornish gales at 600 ft above sea level.

Dad cracked up laughing when he saw Georgie in the garden in her bizarre outfit, and declared that she looked like a little charlady. The poor thing kept having to lift up the fleece to walk!

Here she is in her complete finery:

My Sunday Photo – Sharing my bed

January 5, 2014January 5, 2014

When I arrived at my parents’ house before Christmas, to my great shame, it seems I brought with me a rather vicious winter flu-like bug. Random aches & pains, a temperature, awful head cold, that kind of thing. I was able to laugh at myself for sounding like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory though – my sinuses really hurt whenever I bent over!

My husband and father, both inoculated with the flu jab this winter, almost completely resisted it – making me wish that I had gone to get one at a pharmacy somewhere. The bug quickly spread around all of the females of the family, with my Mum & both girls falling ill shortly after I did.

Thankfully we were starting to feel quite well recovered by Christmas day, but Mum, Georgie & I all have lingering coughs and blocked noses. Poor Georgie is finding it particularly troublesome at night, when her cough keeps her awake. The girls share a room, so lots of loud coughing can end up waking Lydia too – not good. As a result, I’ve ended up with Georgie in my bed with me once or twice over the past week.

I have a large (Ikea sized) double to myself at the moment, apart from whenever James is here with us, so there is plenty of space for us to share now and then… though I’m not sure how Georgie manages to always end up jamming a foot into my spine/ribs!

I took this photo on Friday night, after a particularly unhappy bedtime attempt that ended up with me lying down in my bed with her an hour or two (or three!) earlier than my usual bedtime. She looked so peaceful, finally fast asleep after all her coughing fits & poorly grumpiness – I just couldn’t resist snapping a photo or two. Once she is asleep like this she zonks out completely so I was able to read my book while she snored lightly away, at least.

My Sunday Photo – Happy Birthday James!

December 29, 2013

In a week full of festive fun, we spent a day celebrating James’s 30th birthday. Georgie helped me to bake her Daddy a birthday cake (just like Spot in “Spot Bakes A Cake“*) and I made the icing & decorated it with Lydia strapped to my front in my new SnugiWraps Mei Tai baby carrier – so technically that means all three of us made it together?

Georgie operated Dad’s beloved Kenwood mixer and it was hilariously erratic; going fast and slow, max and min, on and off. I am a little bit surprised that the cake rose at all, but it was actually very yummy and rose wonderfully.

To celebrate James’s “big 3-0” we went to the cinema together in the afternoon, to watch the new Disney film “Frozen” – I loved it! We left the girls at Mum and Dad’s for the afternoon, and had some child free time while we were out. I think it may have only been the fourth time we have both gone out together without them both, and the third time was to Morrisons last weekend, so that wasn’t the most thrilling expedition ever!

In the evening we all had a really scrummy meal together, with Dad cooking up a lovely beef joint with loads of pigs in blankets on the side, just because everybody loves pigs in blankets. It was a relaxed but enjoyable day, and although I wasn’t allowed to spoil him with extravagant gifts we are buying our first house together so I’m going to go ahead and say that gives us a good excuse to be watching the pennies this year.

Instead of buying him the new MacBook Air I would have loved to surprise him with, I stuck to my limit and gave him a nerdy dalek t-shirt, a PS3 game, and a personalised iPhone case. I’m a few days late saying it on here, but Happy Birthday James! xxx

My Sunday Photo – The Percy Family!

December 22, 2013

Left to Right: “Baby Percy, Georgie Percy, Mummy Percy, Daddy Percy!”

Georgie is into making things into families these days, and so anything that groups together like this with different sizes becomes a family. My Dad has two Galaxy Tabs in different sizes (one came free with his camera), as well as an S4 smartphone, and they are “Daddy one, Mummy one & Baby one” – really cute.

On a side note – Georgie took this photo herself, holding my phone to line it up and pressing the button. The first attempt cut off Baby Percy but she noticed, and corrected herself for a second photo. I was quite impressed!