We have had our bikes sat in our shed for a good number of months now complete with rust and punctures.  So this weekend we decided to go and get our bikes repaired.  We phoned up a shop in Congleton that does bike repairs, but the guy was rude on the phone and not really [...]

I walked into the kitchen tonight and spotted a fox picking at the bread we had left out for the birds.  I think I scared him off to start with, but he was soon back for the rest.  We threw another slice out for him so we could take a couple of photos.  Here is [...]

We are teaching Matthew the alphabet at the moment, and he is comming along nicely.  Even though he is 3, he can count to 13 on his own (which is apparently very good) and is getting there with the alphabet.  Although he isn’t able to recite it much, he can spot the letters and tell [...]

Matthew currently has chicken pox.  For those of you who don’t know what this is (and I assume that this is only a few) is a disease caused by a virus that causes little spots or blisters to appear all over your body, which then scab over and heal.  Once you have had the disease [...]

Matthew started nursery today at a local school in Congleton, and it seemed to go very well. When Mandy dropped him off he got stuck into playing with the other kids there and acted like he was being interrupted when she left him 15 minutes later. When Mandy picked him up again before lunchtime he [...]