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Two for Joy

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Fourteen years in London

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Missing

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The end of the beginning

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When your big girl isn't feeling well, so her 4yo sister writes her a little note saying she's giving her some books, and then donates some of her favourites to cheer her up. And you think you must be doing something right. #sisters #beingfour #sisterlove #learningtowrite

Let joy be unconfined: we have Barnaby the class bear on a visit. He enjoyed his bedtime story last night, and has just been making bear cupcakes! Unfortunately his visit coincides with one of the fairly frequent periods when the contrary lump of plastic masquerading as our printer isn't working, so I have just had to email the photos to my husband to print at work so we can do the book tonight and return bear and book tomorrow. Meanwhile Henry Cat is very unimpressed by our visitor (swipe to see). #classbear #beingfour #bloodyprinters #dotheyeverjustprint #disgruntledcatsofinstagram

A beautiful door with a bee-yootiful 🐝 knocker. Just because. Happy hump day. #doorsofinstagram #duckeggdoor #ihavethisthingwithdoors

Day 31 of #MagicOfOctober and the prompt is #magic. I have loved taking part in the challenge again this year, and truly appreciating the magic of the connections and inspiration social media can create. Thank you so much @theclotheslineie This photo is my 4yo making a magic potion of dirty rainwater, dead leaves and bits of moss, and stirring it with a stick whilst chanting a made up spell! Happy October, and Happy Halloween. #childhoodunplugged #beingfour #potions #onlyconnect

Day 30 - and I'm late again. Some very inexpertly carved pumpkins for #orange. #MagicOfOctober

I'm a day late with the 29th day of #MagicOfOctober but there we go. The prompt was #dark, and that fits very well with the dark chocolate fudge graveyard cake I have just made for Halloween. A few years ago I accidentally started the tradition of some of my elder daughter's friends coming round for a pre trick or treating tea. That gradually expanded to include a few more friends, and their siblings, and some attendant adults, and, this year, a couple of the youngest's friends as well. I steadfastly refuse to call it a party. It is absolutely *not* a party. That P word ups the stakes too much. It is just a gathering. Of about 15-20 people. For food. And drink. And dressing up. And maybe games. Last year this @nigellalawson cake became part of the non-party tradition too.

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