Theo: ‘What are you doing?’
Alice: ‘I’m just checking my emails.’
Theo: ‘That’s not how you make friends, Mama.’
Alice Andersen
I live in a little wooden house at the bottom of the world. I have two pink-cheeked, peg-toothed children and a vegetable garden and too many badly behaved animals. Not to imply I have others that are well behaved. Because I don't.
I like: my kids hair when they first wake up in the morning; moving the furniture; yellow.
I am good at: reading stories to children; making cups of tea; adventures.
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Hes so wise….xxx