Take one tree.......

....and add some decorations!

The finished tree!

Topped off with some festive visitors.

Our Christmas tree chooser!

Time for a bit of a scout around the Christmassy garden centre.

Fun at the cafe before collecting our tree.

The patent Browning Tree Transporter to get the tree home!

Kezia's signed book!

Really proud of Kezia and her friend Katie. On their own initiative, they raised money for ABC to Read, the literacy charity of which Sarah is a trustee, by having a loom band sale at their school. Then, at an ABC to Read event, Sarah could hand over the money on their behalf, and one of the charity's patrons, children's author Dan Freedman, gave the girls signed copies of his latest book as a thank you. A win-win! Go girls!

Kezia singing 'Santa Lucia' in her Christmas performance - it was ace.

Mummy & Kezia's day trip to the British Museum - here is Kezia the book worm getting some lunchtime energy for their museum visit.

British museum, England shirt!

British Museum selfie.

The Rosetta stone.

With the bog body!

In the atrium at the British Museum.

Mummy & Grandad at Kensington Palace on their recent day trip to London.

Tasty apple pie from Auntie Joe.

The NCT bunch. Friends since they were born; here at Kezia's 8th birthday party......

....and back in the summer of 2008 at Henley. How time flies.

Kezia's 8th birthday weekend - it began with a party at Woodford Park Leisure Centre.

Fun party tea after all the games.

With Katie & Agatha.

On Kezia's actual birthday - our happy 8th birthday girl.

A smiley birthday photo with Gran.

Kezia's birthday 6 a side match; Dynamo Tekkers v Laurel Park. They drew 6-6 and Kezia was captain and scored a goal!

The team: Kezia, Olivia, Melissa, Hawa, Katie and Kerry.

Pre-match team talk.

Kezia in a couple of action shots from the game.

Katie and Kezia celebrating after the game (with mouthfuls of biscuit).

Birthday cup cakes!

Make a wish.....

Team Browning selfie on the way home from a tasty meal at 'ASK'. Kezia had a brilliant birthday weekend.

The December 2015 issue of Football Weekends magazine, featuring a Q&A section by.....me!

If you right click and then 'open link in new tab', you can enlarge and read the text

Title page.....

....second page....

...and the final page. I am really pleased they used my Q & A.

Kezia went to 'Hero Day' at school dressed as a Chelsea player!

Terrific lecture by linguist David Crystal at Reading University last week - really fascinating.

Kezia flying through the air.

Last weekend we went to Sol Joel park (that we haven't really 'discovered' before) - Kezia's favourite thing was the parkour / free running course, which she absolutely threw herself into (and over, under and round). She just loved it, and it was brilliant to see the determination to succeed in getting up, over and across the obstacles, and the sheer delight when she managed it; our confident, happy, wonderful, not-so-little girl.

They have cool 'stuff' at Sol Joel park.

Funky frog rubbish bins at Sol Joel park.

Happy Birthday Pumpkin. 2 years young on November 1st!!