Wednesday, 28 April 2010

So fresh and so clean

Tell me if this isn't the most immaculate petrol pump you've ever seen.

I think they must have unveiled this the very morning I used it, because I was back a few days later and it was predictably greyish with grime.

I was so pleased to use a clean pump though. Perhaps unreasonably pleased.

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* Ok Americans: gas pump.

Friday, 23 April 2010

Sunflower + Slate

New: residency graduation invitations for the Medical University of South Carolina – a clean, modern design in slate and sunflower. If you click on the image above, you'll get a better look at it.

This is the kind of work I do when I'm not at the press (or, let's face it, trying to wrangle these children along the path to civilisation).

I especially loved this project because it gave me an excuse to talk to my BFF (haha! I've never used that before!) Pauline on the phone three times in one day. Unheard of! She's a physician at MUSC so we felt entitled to make multiple work-related calls.

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{Dates have been digitally altered for privacy}

Thursday, 15 April 2010

A bit of art

Man-show is drawing Bob the Builder, Charlie & Lola, Mr Tom and a meat-eating dinosaur. That about sums up his world, really...

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Monday, 12 April 2010

Galloping

I just discovered little Man-show stark naked, dangerously astride the out-of-bounds Radio Flyer rocking horse, waving his sister's Tinkerbell alarm clock in the air and shouting, "MOMMY! GOT PINKYBELLE! I SHOW YOU!"

Heart-stopping is an understatement.



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Monday, 5 April 2010

I am an old-photo addict

Mum says my Easter present is that she's scanning in long-lost never-seen slides of our family in the late 1970s and emailing them to me.

I feel like all my Christmases have come at once.

Sunday, 4 April 2010

Hop hop hop

We had an egg hunt in the courtyard. Berry informed her daddy, "You have to let children go first, if you have children!"

Happy Easter, everyone...


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Sunday, 28 March 2010

And wildlife.

Okay, here is Berry's nativity scene, as promised in my last post... the chicken is lower left, the "stunk" is lower middle and the squirrels are those non-descript little striped things at lower right. She was unhappy with Joseph's nose so she scribbled it out. She was very upset that Mary turned out "messed up and scribblish" so she made all kinds of angry little extraneous additions. It appears, too, that Mary has a cape (the blue thing that looks like a mohawk is a cape) and a level of anatomical detail that might displease some Sunday School teachers. I am tickled.

Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Away in a manger...

Berry has just drawn a nativity scene. Gathered around the Baby Jesus are a chicken, a squirrel and "a stunk".

A stunk is a skunk.

This is pretty much my favourite thing ever.



{When I can sneak it away from her to take a picture, I'll post the photo here.}

Friday, 19 March 2010

Excuse me???


I've just discovered Man-man standing on a chair at my Mac, tracking Amazon orders, playing a little Owl City on iTunes, and "ironing" a dollar bill with my mouse.


{*A technical note: this photo is from four months ago. Back then he was just reading the Washington Post. Nothing fancy. He's since learned to multi-task.}

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

I have confidence in, confidence in meeeee...

Berry (who, as a reminder, is four) was sitting at the table just now singing – actually kind of bellowing – "I AM SIXTEEN GOING ON SEVENTEEN" for the 86th time and I couldn't hear myself think and in frustration I started, "You are so––" and in my split-second pause to think of a non-destructive term, she supplied: "––amazing?"

Okay.


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