Skippy

, originally uploaded by villageidiot.

Ahh - here she is. Five and skipping. It doesn't get much better than that.

Project Pancake KPIs met

I love a pancake. Especially because I am very good at making them. If I were in Heroes my special ability would be to toss hot batter [this joke is dedicated to Hightower]. I just have a knack of marrying wholesome goop with spectacularly hot kitchen surfaces to produce perfect lovely flat slivers of joy.


So this is me going for the flip (credit to four year old Tilster for the pic):

And these are the litlins with the end result. A particular hit with the boy wonder there...

The French Lieutenant's Four Year Old

I am quite proud of this picture of a very cold looking Tilly, looking a lot older than 4. Hengistbury Head is a beautiful, rugged, windswept place near Bournemouth, with some of the most expensive beach huts in the world don't you know....

That beach knows me quite well. I've sat on rocks here as a teenager at night. Chucked flints at the ground and watched the sparks fly up. Brought girlfriends here. And now my children get to play with it too.

Sparking in the night
Chucking stones off rocks,
Flints on flints send shoals of sparks
Right into the sea

And in the darkness the warm wash
Of the weighty waves,
The vast sheer of the night sky
Buoy lights in the harbour.