The photographer from the Guardian came to take our photo. Lula wore her pink princess dress. With wings. Technically making it a fairy dress I guess. She was supposed to take centre stage, with John and I vying with each other to hide behind her wings, well out of sight and hopefully too blurry for the bank manager …
We are standing frozen with a box that is roughly the size of a small dining table held between us. The box is also roughly the size of a Winnie the Pooh aeroplane that makes taking off sounds and engine in trouble sounds (that’s the jingle actually) and lets you store your hairclips and teddies …
I took Lula to see ‘Up‘ yesterday. It’s the new Pixar / Disney movie. It’s about an old man who spends his whole life dreaming of going to a place called Paradise Falls with his wife. Oooh, as I write that I realise it sounds like I took Lula to watch some porn. This was …
John called me as I waded my way across the cricket pitch to Lula’s preschool in torrential rain. I was feeling proud of myself for having managed to get lula, her two coats, protective rain gear (ladybird umbrella, wellie boots and mac), lunch bag and homework bag there on time, in one piece and without …
‘Mummy, I just want to be prettier still.’ ‘Sweetheart you don’t need hairclips in your hair to be pretty.’ ‘No. I need to wear bracelets too. I need to be more prettier.’ Damn. How did this happen? How did our three year old daughter become so obsessed by her looks and notions of beauty? That’s …
Tomorrow we are having people around for dinner – Claude will be having his in Lula’s pink wendy house if she gets her way. He will be wearing a prince outfit, she a bridal veil made of her christening blanket and a Rambo hairband. Explaining to her that Claude already has a girlfriend and wants …
‘So, Lula, do you know what we’re doing next year?’ (Next year could just as well be in five minutes to her. She thinks her birthday is every single day, that Christmas is next week and that Claude, her favourite person in the whole world is coming to stay in her Pink House at the …
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