New wheels

Maud has out grown the bike she got not so very long ago, must be all the sun this year. So time for new one, and since the bike sale was on in town.... and I was feeling generous.

Somebody has (finally) got a proper big bed to sleep in tonight. Not that he looks so excited about it.

Paris leaves the house

So after the hottest summer for the last 5 million years, the summer when we had to have all the doors closed so the cat didn't escape, he was finally allowed to leave the building. He had already escaped once last week and survived to tell the tale and seemed to want more, he was crazy to get out. I thought an afternoon on the balcony would suffice but he thought otherwise and escaped over the side. A 3 meter drop.
Luckily Maud wasn't home.
So off he disappeared for an hour or so, scrabbling around in the bushes and climbing trees.

He came back of course, phew.

Seems like he really needed the toilet and hadn't really grasped the idea that outside is OK for that kind of thing.

So our youngest has now flow the nest to battle the world on his own.

After a long period uncertainty Maud finally came round and joined him in his new adventure.

Paris leaves the nest from matt on Vimeo.


He was pretty exhausted after tearing up and down the garden chasing Maud and her stick for half an hour, panting like a dog.

All good things come in THREE

Little Spudster, despite never actually eating anything, has managed to survive his way through three earth years, this was obviously rewarded with cake and pop like all good birthdays. He's not such a big cake fan though either, so the grown ups scoffed that.

A bit of a cheat by starting the celebrations a day early, our second Sunday on the bounce celebrating a birthday in the household  munching cake.

Photos, photos everybody wants photos, if google ever get around to fixing all the bugs they have added to Picasa / Blogger in the past 5 years I would post more,   Grrrrrrrr.

Cake, who ordered cake?

Selma shares Brands enthusiasm for a train set.

FFwd, one day to today, and here is the B'day boy modelling this years nursery crown