Tuesday, 9 June 2009
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Monday, 8 June 2009
What a month!
OK, ok so this blog is meant to be all about Curtis...but here's our excuse for not uploading photos for the past few weeks. We've been busy selling our beloved Southside flat, Steph has also worked her notice in her job at the uni and we have very almost nearly bought a new house in Dunfermline as part of our next big adventure. New jobs, new home and a new life further North begins for us in about 6 weeks! We will be so sad to leave everything and everyone here in Glasgow but feel overall its the best move. For Curtis (and us) it will mean the terrible wrench of taking him away from his precious childminder Tracey and her family who he has grown to love and adore so much, as we have too. Its with a sad heart that I venture to find a new childminder this week. We have a nursery place booked but I really feel he has benefitted so much from the loving family environment at Traceys that we'd like to try and replicate this if we can. Not only we will be leaving Tracey and her family behind, but also Curtis's little daytime pals Daniel and Georgia who he gets on so well with. I just have to be thankful that Curtis (and I) had the good fortune to meet Tracey at all and that Curtis had the best childcare I could have ever hoped for. I'm sure the benefits of these past 11 months with Tracey have given Curtis a very strong grounding for a happy and confident future, and having been such good buddies with Daniel, Georgia, Katie, Maddie and others he'll take with him the skills of making pals and sharing giggles. I know we'll be very busy in the next few weeks so I just wanted now to acknowledge our appreciation of Traceys support and to thank her looking after Curtis so well and for all the fun, energy, love and kindness. Big thanks are also due to Catherine, Sean and Wilma for treating Curtis as one of the family and showing him such love and affection. You will all be missed so much :-(
Sunday, 7 June 2009
Pollokshields 'Ready Steady Grow'
Did you know that the area I live in is the biggest and best planned garden suburb in the UK? Well, nor did I till mum starting tell me all about it today. Appparently, Pollokshields was created in the late 19th century by the Stirling Maxwell family as a unified garden suburb, with wide streets and tree lined routes and lots of open spaces. The Maxwell family also donated the 361 acre Pollok estate which is now Pollok country park. Well, today, many of the green spaces were
part of the ready steady grow event and mum and I trundled down to explore The New Victoria Gardens, this hectare of allotments is in the heart of busy Pollokshields, you'd never know these community gardens were hidden away behind the wee green door....they are not that new either...having been a community allotment for over 130 years. Anyway, whats far more exciting is that when there we saw frogs and tadpoles and I even touched the frog and made him (and mummy!) jump!
Like many days at home now we spent the rest of our time in the garden; this morning we played with Alisha, Chloe and Mark and this afternoon we did some gardeing with George and Anne. I bounced on the trampoline too and shouted and pointed at all the birds and helicopters flying over the garden.
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