Do you remember the perfect belly button swirl E had when she was 17 weeks? It grew out. Now she's nonchalantly rocking a perfect curl instead. The kind you spend twenty minutes chasing a toddler around the room trying to photograph.
We're just back from a week of house hunting in London. It was Not Good. The most appealing prospect had a crack running down the front of the building and damp creeping up the back. It was a quarter of a million pounds.
I think one of my colleagues might be moving soon (lovely house with garden and that) do you want me to keep an ear out?
ReplyDeleteyes please. I'll swap them one baby for the perfect house.
DeleteOh send me one baby :)
Delete(And good luck house hunting, you will find the place)
And the curl is perfect.
Come to the south side. Don't be scared. Sure we don't have the tube but we have the green stuff.
ReplyDeleteoh Anna, we *were* looking in the south side, a million miles from the tube....
DeleteHouse hunting officially sucks until it doesn't.
ReplyDeletewe were house hunting for a million trillion years in S. London (from Streatham to New Cross and all the cooler posher cuter places in between) so feel very well placed to give advice on London house searches. Let me know if I can help! We're hopefully (fingers, toes, eyes crossed) exchanging on a place next week.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest tip for family friendly slightly cool but relatively unknown spots is West Norwood - check out the West Norwood Feast etc. You can get a 3-bed house with garden for same price as 2 bed flats, and they're often these lovely 30's ones etc. Also some very dire ones, not to sell it too much.
Both my kidlets had similar curls, I called them duck tails. We live in Berkhamsted which is 30 mins on the train to central London (quicker than a tube), it is a beautiful town with a canal and a castle. WE'd love to have you here! xx
ReplyDeleteHouse hunting is soul sucking.
ReplyDeleteoh I feel your pain. We have been house hunting in Melbourne to buy our first home, the only thing we can actually afford here (near-ish the beach and city) is a tiny apartment- not exactly the dream you move over to the other side of the world for. But you never know what it just around the corner...last week Curt found out his job is relocating to a coastal town an hour out of the city. He is over the moon because there are waves there and endless surfing opportunities. The kids will grow up right by the ocean. I am happy that we will be able to buy a place that has three bedrooms and an actual garden rather than a teeny balcony referred to as an 'extensive deck for entertaining'.
ReplyDeleteIf the swirl can find a new home... I'm sure you can too.
ReplyDeleteDon't be discouraged, it's out there!
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Ugh sorry to hear that. we're renting in south east London, in Brockley. Its lovely (cafe's, deli's, market, leafy, not too close and not too far from central London with lovely houses) but it has become pretty pricey since the east london line opened- have you looked at it? Anyway- would you consider renting first? would that make things any easier?! or really not at all?! Good luck either way. Sorry its sucked ass so far.
ReplyDeleteI dream of having such delightful pictures of my little boy. So utterly devine.x
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful curls and well captured on camera!
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