I tell you it didn’t get old hearing that for oh about 3 hours in the night.  Poor little monkey was in pain due to her back teeth coming in and felt out of sorts.  The fact that I had decided to take away her precious this weekend didn’t help matters either.  We got there [...]

Last night was another first and was pretty eventful…  I decided to try and get Millie off the bedtime dummy (American trans. Pacifier).   To try and get her over the change I allowed her to have a little glass of milk as this is one of the things she always asks for at bedtime.  [...]

One of my favourite Kids TV programmes was Take Hart – a truly inspirational and groundbreaking programme which made very happy every week and no doubt had a similar effect on millions of kids.  The sad death of the host Tony Hart is not a shock but it has made me a little sad as [...]

I do hope the sleep I got last night and this morning has brought me back up to quota.  I managed to get an additional 4 hours after I had spoken to Chip this morning.  That is unheard of for me!! The dodgy rib is almost back to normal and I think I may even [...]

Last night I was sitting on the floor giving my dog some much needed love trying to watch the Chelsea game and just couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer and thought, f*ck it, time for sleep.  This was about 10 so I figured I may have a decent burst of sleep but hell to [...]

OK so I’m back.  Woo.

It’s amazing just how close we are to so much over here.  About an hour and a half away are the most incredible mountains with breath taking natural beauty about 7000 feet up with loads of snow and more importantly, runs of snow that you can ride down on truck tire intertubes!  Something I’ve never [...]

Last night we cooked a traditional Cottage Pie (well, with Turkey mince so it was named a pilgrim pie) and then decided to go watch a movie.  On the way there we heard on the radio that there had been an earthquake in San Berardino which isn’t very far away at all.  When we got [...]

Well yesterday afternoon me and Chippy took a little drive out to Balboa beach in Newport where we walked along the pier, mucked about in the sand and then watched the sunset wrapped in blankets.  A perfect afternoon.  You just can’t plan days like that, they just happen.  We had some great food at the Old [...]

We got up and made our way down to the harbour where we had booked tickets to go on a ship to take us whale watching.  A few wrong turns and we missed it by a few minutes which in hindsight turned out to be the best thing that could have happened as we had [...]