My stories is a personal journal of life with twins, photography, family recipes, and animal tales.
Luce and Theo are often as thick as thieves. After all they have that special twin bond. Like good friends or close couples who mirror each other, I notice how the same happens with my two. Luce and Theo unconsciously become each other’s echoes. On an outing last weekend to ride a steam engine on the […]
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There’s a small railway bridge over a dirt track road near the woods. Theo likes to shout under it to listen to his voice echo. Luce likes to sing. She’s always singing, but she makes up her own tunes and lyrics. This drives Theo crazy more often than not, but this time they decided to
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A week ago there were only buds on my climbing roses entwined up a row of pillars. Then, as if in a celebration of the beginning of June, blooming roses covered the first wooden pillar. Glorious large pink roses. Most of my strawberry plants are still flowering or just beginning to form fruit, but I found some
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We made a detour to the pond at Wakehurst Place in Sussex this week to see if there were any young ones newly on the loose. And, yes, there we found Mother Goose and her goslings. Theo was rather pleased that he also found one of her feathers. Of course he had to bring it home
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They went on a short walk after school in May. Theo ran down a lane as fast as he could. Luce belted out a song. With two front teeth missing, Theo wanted to make faces. So Luce decided to distract him. Oh, there’s a tiny spider in your hair, she said. I’ll return it to the bluebells. But it
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Since last summer Luce has been taking riding lessons. When I was taking pictures of her last lesson I noticed how much more confident and relaxed she was as a rider. She also wanted a picture of the horse to keep with her first certificate and rosette from the Association of British Riding Schools. My personal favourite
