366 days of photos - week 5

These past 7 days have been horrid to be honest and most days I just didn't have the time, energy or inclination to take a photo each day. So I've cheated a bit this week and selected photos from throughout the week that put a much rosier glow on proceedings.

So here's what I would rather remember about this week:

Sunset during the commute home

A day at home with two 18 month olds - a day that rejuvenated my soul

Lunch at Wagamamas with good friends, putting the world to rights

Waking up to snow

Finally having the mental space and time to notice little details

A spot of sledging

Walking through a winter wonderland

Here's hoping that next week will be a much kinder week. If it's not, I may need to offer up some sacrificial object to the universe. It's obviously seriously pissed at me.

Project 355 week4

Another week, another load of illness chez egg. What can you do eh? Pesky kids. Still cute though (just as well). Poor Bigger has been complaining since Wednesday that he has tonsilitis. Only yesterday did I get round to looking at his tonsils. Ah...white spots. That would explain the fever you were running on Friday night then? Bad mummy. But honestly, does that gap-toothed grin look like the grin of a poorly child to you?

Thankfully, we discovered the joy of old toys this week. A simple train-set, put away in the shed to make way for shiny new toys has brought hours of delight (some shared even).

And then there's Mrs Goggins...

I want to live in a village with a real life Mrs Goggins. She'd teach me to crochet, chastise me for indulging in internet shopping (och, it's all these parcels yer getting - it's too much for Pat to cope with on his wee push bike) and I'd bake her cakes like this one:

I think I need a Mrs Goggins in my life. If only to save me from eating all the cake...

Project 366 week 3

Are we already 3 weeks in to January? Crazy. Which is exactly what the past week has been...

The week started with some insane work/childcare juggling. Mr Potato-head came to the rescue as did Twister. Thankfully, both were able to transcend a 4 year age gap and kept 4 children happily amused long enough to cook their dinner. Phew.

Tuesday night was the launch of Oxfam's Get Together initiative for International Women's Day (more about that later when the lovely girls at Oxfam email me some decent pics - my iphone camera was woefully inadequate at capturing all the beautiful people). But I will tell you this: I met Caitlin Moran. We talked about pubic hair (this only makes sense if you've read her book, which I recommend all women do - it's snort tea out your nose hilarious). I gabbled at her. A lot. She was very lovely about it. 

 Then work turn into a crazy crap storm of a week and the photo above and the two below are pretty much symbolic of the amount of quality time I got to spend with the boys. Nada. While they were awake anyway...

I do love how they look almost identical when asleep...sweet, adorable, gorgeous boys.

So we ended the week the best way we knew how: with copious amounts of baking. Mostly lemon drizzle cake (guaranteed sunshine in every bite) and double chocolate cookies from the lovely Mary Berry's Baking Bible.

I think I've almost eaten enough lemon drizzle cake to erase the crapness of last week. Hmm, best go and have another piece, just to make sure.

Project 366 week 2

Week 2 of January in photos. A bit of allotment love, a bit of spiced bun love.

366 days of photos - week 1

In an effort to pay more attention to the little things, the small moments, the normally unremarkable, I'm taking part in the 366 photo a day project using my iphone camera. They're not the most inspiring of photos, but everyone has to start somewhere. So here's what the first week of 2012 looked like through my iphone camera: