After a strong start to the year in terms of the frequency of website updates, I have stalled in recent weeks and have fallen behind my attempts at updating at least once a fortnight. This may have disappointed some of you, but I make no apologies, life has to take precedence over letting you know about it. Unfortunately, it is not because I have been busy with the family, which would be a more acceptable excuse, but more that the football seasons are heading to their inevitable conclusion, coupled with the Eurovision Song Contest and umpteen other sports that require televisual production and so I have been spending a little more time at work than usual. Read more
2017
If we had no Winter, the Spring would not be so pleasant
We are half way through April and the Baguettes have not been to school this month. A relatively late Easter has meant that the fortnight break between the Spring and Summer terms has so far prevented the Baguettes from attending class this month. Unfortunately, their two-week break has coincided with a busy time for me at work so most of the childcare has fallen to Lucinda. Read more
Welcome to the family, Willow
Before you all start worrying that Lucinda and I have decided to have a fourth child, you can sit down and relax. Willow, may be the name of the latest addition to the family, but she is not a child but a cat.
The Bagnalls were not looking for a cat. The cat was not looking for the Bagnalls. Yet, Willow, was to become the Bagnalls first cat. Willow’s story began around Christmas. A black cat, thin and scrawny looking wandered into my friend’s (Bobby) house during the hiatus betwixt Christmas and New Year’s day. There had been a house fire further down the street and so Bobby thought that this was a temporary situation until the owners returned. But they did not return and they did not claim the cat. That is how it would have stayed except that Bobby wasn’t staying in his house and not wanting the cat to feel abandoned a second time he felt obliged to rehome the cat. Read more