What a lovely story. Well done Charlie, you brave brave boy.

nope pippi is there!

Try this site, it seems to load a bit faster http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/charlieandlola/ Actually they were books first, for at least 10 years, and only in the last 3 or 4 have become such a brand. I find them a lot more bearable than some of the alternatives.

hope things get better soon.

I'm sorry it's come to this, Julia. I hope the process is as painless as possible.

gorgeous and tres classy. Well done Knox.

Um no, the english word for piles is the equivalent to haemorrhoids. Constipation is just simple constipation! Packing is hell. You have my every sympathy.

Bloglines will let you export your feeds, in fact I wrote a post on that a while back, i'll see if I can find it, but basically you go to the bottom of your feed list, click on export, and put the link in a new typepad list in the comments section. HOpe that works.

Oh julia I am sorry. I know you loved your house. It must be really really hard to let it go. I hope this turns out to be an important turning point for the family in you establishing the kind of life you really want for you and your girls.

I like this one better ;-) Re classy, I don't think it is true now, but obviously was when we were little. Certainly the hairbands that some people put on babies are a definite no-no, but really I rarely see small girls in hair bows, whatever age, so I think it's just one of my mum's ridiculous prejudices, but not worth falling out over. pob is due for another haircut so I put a bow in today and she looked adorable for the 25 minutes before she pulled it out and ate it. I will have to go for those elastic thingies someone else was talking about.

I like the background, but it is very mummy-blogish, quite chirpy. That may be how you're feeling and it corresponds fairly well to how you write now, but it doesn't give the full richness of your blog history and your skills as a photographer, IMO. But that's just me! I decided to go with hairclips for Pob, but then my mother threw a fit and told me they were unacceptable for babies (it's a class thing I think in the UK) and since I didn't feel that strongly about it we had her hair trimmed and it became instantly a lot more manageable. Although we've had to have it trimmed twice since, so draw your own conclusions!

Ah Julia, thank you for everything you've been part of in this community. And may 2009 be a wonderful year for you.