Adventures in Baby Wrangling

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19
Jul 10

Happy Monday

I’ve been avoiding the outdoors somewhat of late since we’ve been having unseasonably hot weather and I’m really not a hot weather person. My first summer in the UK just over 8 years ago now was largely spent, lying on a bed in a darkened room with the fan going at full blast plaintively bemoaning the heat in a manner to rival the very best heroine of Puccini’s.

I can’t get away with that any more since Amelia just won’t tolerate that kind of nonsense. Today as the temperature/air pressure hadn’t given me a combination heat/sinus headache we set out towards Mill Lane to feed the ducks some of the dried bread mummy had managed to avoid eating* a few days prior.

After a brief stop in the middle of town to 1) chat to a friend of mine from my Am Dram days 2) check out a clothing sale, we arrived at the little park area where the Ivel has a shallow remains of former Mill pond to divest ourselves of rather dry bread and improve Amelia’s throwing arm.

There is a little bit of steep bank to the “pond” and we carefully stood there while I held Amelia, the bread and the iPhone and fed the ducks. We were quite engrossed in this when we suddenly found ourselves nearly nose to beak with a family of swans! The two parents and 3 semi-adolesant cygnets - still grey fluff but not that much smaller than Mum and Dad. Cue a backwards scramble up the bank just in case these swans were not like the ones back in Tymon Park I’d known who would literally stick their head in your pocket and nuzzle you.

(The inane commentary is me, of course, succumbing to the very mummy habit of running and audio commentary on *everything* for the benefit of my child’s language development. So not only does it annoy me but I loathe my accent.)

We continued the feeding them and then headed on to the playground where we bumped into some mums we knew from playgroup of old, one of whom had actually tried phoning me earlier in the day to meet up! We then had a very pleasant impromptu play date and the 4 little ones had a lot of fun running about.

Time sped by and before we knew it it was time to head home for lunch…

* I’m really trying to get back on the diet wagon and bread is an evil tempter.

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8
May 10

Then and Now (and a video)

For comparison:

Amelia 2 years ago, and today on the train.

We travelled down to London today as I had very unexpectedly won some tickets for us to visit the Real Food Festival, thanks to being a follower of Nick of MyDaddyCooks on twitter, who was giving a talk on Cooking with Children*. Amelia was very well behaved on the train and tube journeys and seemed to enjoy seeing future bacon butties (a.k.a piglets) a very placid Water Buffalo called Petal and a number of performing sheep. Well, I say performed there was a “show” featuring them at 12, half past 1 and 3opm. We tasted lots of cheese - Amelia was in her element here, sausages and came away with some lovely chai and a dinky little teapot.

Earlier in the day when we were leaving Biggleswade we noted that there were a lot more people that one might expect wandering about the station, all was revealed when we got on the train and were informed as we were pulling out that any children on board might want to look out the window as a steam train was about to pass. Rather than try to get a rubbish photo, I instead took a video..

*Please note not using children as an ingredient**

** This note mainly for my mother

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