WAKE UP/GOOD MORNING
knee deep

this morning started with a really bloody face - Alice meeting the floor with her teeth/mouth in a move that was as bizarre as it was dramatic as well as loud, impressively colourful and terrifying but, thankfully no major hurt

and after yesterday's exposure to the work place and another hard surface encounter I decided that today we'd better play safe so....

lots of soft bright children things (shudder)

anyway, there was a malevolent cloud - probably my very own creation: something happens when I do 'proper parent' stuff, I get edgy, suspicious and start subscribing to conspiracy theories normally plucked out of the air, which, of course, is thick with exemplary parents who only speak to their children in low calm tones and feed them dried parsnip roots (which, incidentally the children love - theirs not mine) etc etc

well, Rudy didn't swear and Alice didn't wrestle, so a resounding success and I only thought about wine once