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Before bedtime
All join in! After dinner the kids were playing on the floor. I naively thought I could finally sit down and draw them quietly. But Juno stood up immediately and insisted drawing on my sketch book, then Bertie joins in to draw his sci-fi fantasy. So we sat together until bedtime. For the paint, I…
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Rediscovering Colour Pencils
I have taken advantage of the Scrawlrbox and got some new Posca and Derwent Pencils. With the limited palette I started some super quick and simple drawings and I am quite happy with it. Recently I have rediscovered pencil colours, as they are clean and very versatile, and I can use them when I am…
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rumbling
I painted this one on an A3 watercolour paper. I hadn’t bought any new ones at that time. And this piece of paper suffered from water damage. Cockled, that’s the new term I have just learnt. I have no idea when it happened. I hope I will do this one again. Because I don’t know…
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Days are long, years are short.
Now my daughter is nearly 2. I have been here before 5 years ago. The crying, the tantrum, the breastfeeding in the night. And hell! Another year until I send her to nursery. Things have been hard. But unlike last time, I know they do pass and more aspects of my life are in a…
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Trying again after 5 years.
After 5 years I find I still want to keep a blog. After 5 years I am living with another soon-to-be 2 year old toddler and a 7-year-old growing little boy. After 5 years I am still living in Inverkeithing, but this time we have bought our own house with a sizeable garden. After 5…
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Bonne année
Happy new year! Like everybody, I want to make a list of New Year Resolutions on the first of January. The vibrate 2015 is over, and miraculously Bertie sleeps by 8pm tonight, giving me the rare chance to enjoy a glass of wine and a box of chocolate from my beloved ones at Christmas. For…
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Changing direction
As you can see i am feeling a bit lost about what to blog. I want to be consistent but I am genuinely interested in a lot of things, baking, cooking, advocating for extended breastfeeding and cosleeping, gentle parenting,travelling, photography, politics, current affairs… You name it. But I would not be able to voice…
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Just a little note while being very busy
Life has been a mess for a while. My husband started working in a new job. I have some friends came to visit and stayed. I stayed over at my in-law for a long weekend. Sometimes Bertie sleeps like an angel but sometimes he is like a newborn all over again. Maybe because he sleeps…
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Summer with my toddler: Berry Picking
Today Carl and I took Bertie to pick berries in the Craigies Farm in South Queensferry, just a short distance from Edinburgh. Bertie is still too young to walk and pick his own berries so Carl was carrying him all the way. Craigies Farm is the most family-friendly pick-your-own farm we have ever been…
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Back to reality
It has been a good few days since I have returned from Hong Kong. Unfortunately there are many other things going on recently and I really need a little time to recollect myself. I am really not in the mood of sharing holiday photos or talking about what interesting things we have done. I have…
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Daphne Bennett 