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A baby grins cheekily from a highchair at a campsite.
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Cheeky Camper

by Lydia September 11, 2023

Back from a weekend camping. Elfi’s first time in a tent! She loved it, as she does anything that’s outside – definitely an outdoors baby.

September 11, 2023
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A man, a baby, and a little girl stand in the woods with their dog and a basket full of mushrooms, smiling for the camera.
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Mushroom Haul

by Lydia September 2, 2023

Quite the haul of chanterelles!

September 2, 2023
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A child's drawing of a family, with three stick people (one of whom is holding a stick baby) and a stick dog.
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Family Portrait

by Lydia August 30, 2023

Family portraits don’t come much cuter than this.

August 30, 2023
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A margarita sits on a table in a restaurant in the foreground, with a glass of cranberry juice behind.
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First Day of School

by Lydia August 15, 2023

Somehow, today was Auri’s first day at school. Already.

As I did when Elfi started nursery earlier this month, I spent half the day flinching, thinking I’d misplaced a child somewhere.

Euan and I dropped Auri off in the morning, then went for a very civilised coffee and breakfast pastry in a mildly shell-shocked daze. Later, there was lunch.

August 15, 2023
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Thoughts

On Notes and Notetaking #1

by Lydia August 5, 2023

I have noticed (note-iced?!) these last few days, since I have had time to think (Auri-juggling, though exhausting and challenging at times, is nowhere near as constantly intensive as looking after Elfi every minute of the day), that my notebook is becoming more and more full of fresh ideas and scattered with observations. Previously, though I used a notebook almost daily, the content would be leaning towards lists: things to do, things I hope to do. Now it has a different flavour.

It’s strange how easy it becomes to assume, when you’re lost in the midst of the parenting jungle, that certain energies and abilities to process certain ideas might be lost forever when, really, they’re just lying dormant, like plants waiting for spring.

August 5, 2023
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Two fly agaric mushrooms nestle in woodland undergrowth.
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Accidental Ramble

by Lydia August 4, 2023

Today, we had one of those lazy family walks which turned into a two-hour ramble. Auri kept saying, “I’m having too much fun!” and Elfi kept laughing and chattering away. The promised showers hadn’t really come to anything, and it was still, warm and calm. We are in peak mushroom season right now, with several varieties popping up in different parts of the woods. Auri knows not to touch any, as I’m not confident enough in my identification, but keeps reminding me that our friend Daša knows which ones we can collect and eat so she’ll be doing that with her one of these days.

August 4, 2023
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Sunshine filters through into a wood of Scots Pine.
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All Change!

by Lydia August 1, 2023

And it’s all change for August! A beautiful day, and a walk filled with pale, dappled sunshine in The Pinewood. Elfi has now started nursery, Auri has two weeks left before starting school, and I’m officially on annual leave rather than maternity leave now.

August 1, 2023
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A young baby smiles delightedly in her pram. In front of her, on the cover of the pram, is a heap of broom petals and a couple of bluebells.
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Gifts of Broom

by Lydia June 13, 2023

The recent rain (three afternoons of thunderstorms, two accompanied by deluges, breaking the heat) has turned the first of the paths through the woods into a broom jungle, the sheer weight of all the water pushing down the whips and closing off the way forward. We picked our way through yesterday, and pruned a few lost branches today.

Auri loves the broom. Whenever we go for a walk, she presents Elfi and me with handfuls of the petals.

June 13, 2023
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A little girl in a summer dress and hat stands in a shallow burn (beck, stream) by a bridge. She is smiling and striking a happy pose for the camera, her hands in the air.
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Mess Jungle Feral

by Lydia June 6, 2023

Resurfacing after a mad two months, half of which hasn’t been spent at home. Catching up with messages and somehow wondering how Elfi is six months already this week.

Current status: the house is a mess, the garden’s a jungle, and the children are feral.

June 6, 2023
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A woman and her daughter smile for the camera in front of a lawn, some trees, and a large white house. It is bright, but looks a little breezy.
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Catching Up

by Lydia April 13, 2023

We are just catching our breath from a busy last fortnight, just in time to rush into another busy month.

Last week, we were all up at Stempster. Euan spent a happy two or three days (mostly) in the Wild Wood, taking down fifty-two and a half trees (the half being some serious surgery to a victim of lightning). Auri spent many a delighted hour on the swing and generally wreaking havoc outside, Elfi was her usual cheerful self, and Scapa got in some much-loved beach walks.

There are several photographs to share, which I suspect will crop up at odd times over the coming few days. But enough of us. How are you all?!

April 13, 2023
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