flummoxed

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Which way up??? flummoxed with first born, which is every father, and possibly parent, ever! What we have to take them home?
from the 90’s trove… Finn looking super cute, certainly wouldn’t be hoiking the lummox around like that nowadays… not with me lumbago!
…. n.b always presumed lumbago was some sort of beano disease? hoping nobody actually suffers from it, whatever it be

polperro

aww gotta love summer in the 90’s, with all its golden sea sepia nostalgia glow!
the slightly unusual combo of me, Raymondo, Mum and baby Nick, on the walk to polperro
hmm must be 94? gulp nearly a quarter of a century ago… Mel over from Miami, so i’m just back from Praha? or more likely the caves in Granada? just before South America any roads

as i sit here eating ‘dinner’, organic avocado, popcorn hot from the pan and some sweet chilli sauce (do what you want kids!),
easy to stumble into the trope ‘where did it all go wrong?’, but, ha, actually it all went rather marvelously well,
time just passed, not the same as saying, there aren’t so so many things i wish had gone differently, but actually such a blessed existence! x

interspersed with comments from mole!

ha! blooming hope not, but a man muddling thru his maudlin’ young molefred x

i’m currently perusing the internet for 900mm quadrant shower doors, so clearly the glory days are on their way! x

ooh thanks, aw you’ve set my heart tap dancing with your tip top tap top tips! whoops gone a bit dr zeuss x

we look like supergrass! kinda… and who could argue with:
‘we are young, we run free, we’ve got teeth nice and clean…’

dita: Baz! You’ve been exactly like that!!!! (You still are 😉 but it’s funny to see your 90´s face again! Pusa!

aw ditka (ditichku?!), i laughed when i saw this one, it is exactly my praha face and the clothes! ear shaped shell necklace, my favourite ever pink and purple jumper and such astonishing luxuriance of hair! bouffant
goooood times… come visit me and the ocean this summer xx

christmas swim

megan: Wow! You are brave!

ah yes! creature of immense courage as i am! was cold, but not too bad, been a mild winter so far here… merry christmas xx

Alistair: Happy Christmas Mr B

cheers, and to you ali bongo x

Charlotte: Blimey that must have woken you up……..fabulous !! x

ha, more of a tonic for finn, who hadn’t swum on christmas day before, and had a dismal hangover xx

Wendy: Love the vibrancy of these photos! Merry Yule dear Richard 💗

thanks m’dear, hope yours has been a good ‘un… bring on da bling! i was born for tinsel, love its cheapskate light scatter promisesand beneath the waves i am selkie, but never manatee… oh and the snap of mum and my finn is most deffo a fave xxx

Kathy: Goodness. You and your mini-me are as mad as each other – must have been FREEZING!

not nearly as nippy as some other years, Finn in fairness lasted 5 nanoseconds, but he is not blessed with quite as much fortitude… or useful blubber xx