Posts Tagged: isla
Cars & Girls – 1 June 2014
Mini, Volvo, Porsche. Parked in Covent Garden.
Mum & Isla. On a Sunday afternoon at Craigcrook Road.
Long Weekend – 3rd May 2014
Innes & I got to go to a party with a bouncy castle.
He had lots of fun, so hanging around with me next time big brother and sister go out will definitely seem like the short straw. We watched a film after, to recover.
One of the many extra things you get to do when there’s one more day in the weekend. It feels more like another week.
The chance to offload some old kit, and move on to the next stage.
HTA Design LLP is One 4 April 2014
It’s more fun on the train when you bring the family. We all went to London to help celebrate HTA’s first birthday. The bairns got a first experience of family holidays in big cities: traipsing around, sore feet, trying to find somewhere cheap enough that we could have a meal each…
We visited a house with a hole in it.
It’s a nice enough house characterised by fantastic vibrant colours, but we’re drawing up plans for it’s demolition.
Innes isn’t here, he’s looking for the funny man.
Uncle Ed’s Chair 29 January 2014
This is Uncle Ed’s Chair. Uncle Ed was born in 1908, so he was probably sitting in it about a century ago.
He was my Gran’s little brother. As we’re the folk left in the family with kids who fit it, we’ve inherited it. I like how the seat’s all scratched and the arms are shiny, a reminder of all the abuse it’s taken in the last 100 years.
Ours prefer sitting on tables or on the floor. Perhaps it’s unfamiliar.
I like that it’s useful and practical, and gives a physical connection to the past. It’s not the only connection: the watercolours that the sketches are done with belonged to my Gran. It’s nice that they’ve lasted.
Fraser & Isla 15 December 2013
Short days in mid December mean more time in. I’ve never watched a whole film with Isla before, so we watched Beauty & the Beast from the comfort of the couch. 
She used a cushion for help with the scary bits, I just concentrated on the Christmas tree and accepted that I can’t make ‘Beauty’ a beauty, which might be some consolation for the (actually quite handsome) Fraser.
CBeebies does Gender Bias 18 October 2013
Sketching the kids over the course of an October holiday. CBeebies is on and Fraser & Innes are mucking about and not paying much attention. 
Isla’s watching closely. She’s wondering where the women are. As far as I can see, over 80% of the TV shows have lead characters who are male. Why’s that?
So we put on the Jungle Book, which didn’t really help.
Kid’s Stuff – August 2013
I got mixed up with a kids party for the first time in a while. 
40 years on, things have changed.
Innes watching a bit of TV.
F&I waiting to go swimming.
We all went to Nina and the Neurons at the festival in the BBC’s adaptable (pub/ children’s crèche) venue.
In the garden at Eildon – 9 June 2013
A sunny afternoon in my parent’s garden with all my sisters, all their lovely kids, and their various appendages, as my mum would have it.
F, I & I watching the Italian Job.
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