Halloween

So this was Sunday, Halloween! I made two pumpkin heads, one for Ruby and Lookie and Ruby got to dress up as a witch and go to her first Halloween party at Seth and Kate's, for Hunter's birthday.
Ruby went swimming with her Mummy on Sunday morning, while Lookie and I got to spend some quality father and son time togther. I also made a very big mousaka, took loads of photos of the children and in honour of Halloween, we watched the scariest movie we could think of (after the children had gone to bed, of course), 'The Exorsist', but found it nothing like as scary as it used to be.

Saturday

I took far, far too many pictures this weekend and not enough time now to sift through, edit and upload. So here's just a few to be getting on with from Saturday.
I was really happy to pick up this vintage, ceramic, Snoopy money box, for Ruby, at our local car boot sale. We had a glorious rainbow over Harlesden on Saturday morning. Lookie and I in the park. Handfuls of children. Jess (who's due in January) and Adam came round for lunch. I made pumpkin soup and made another attempt at perfecting my slow, fennel, roasted pork belly, with all the trimmings.
On Saturday night, after Strictly and X-Factor - we watched Tom Ford's brilliant adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's 'A Single Man'. We both thought it was a beautiful film and Colin Firth was amazing in the starring role.
More to follow soon from Halloween and a party at Hunter's house.

Kubrick

This is such an incredible picture, probably one of best behind the scenes movie pictures, I've ever seen, especially if you love Kubrick as much as I do.
Here's Stanley, on the set of 'The Shining', with his daughter Vivian, taking a picture of Jack Nicholson but taking a picture of himself. Genius. Wish I'd watched 'The Shining' last night now, instead of the 'Exorcist', just doesn't maintain its scariness like 'the Shining'.

Bramley's

On Sunday afternoon, Ruby and I got on my bike and headed over to Latimer Road for a couple of hours climbing and sliding at Bramley's.

Gauguin

Blimey - after a week of bad technical problems, when I couldn't save and upload pictures, I'm hugely relieved to be back up and running and can catch up starting with this trip, last Friday evening, to Tate Modern to see the Gauguin exhibition and Ai Weiwei's sunflower seed installation in the turbine hall. It was a wonderful evening, the Gauguin show's ok (would have been a lot better if hung chronologically rather than thematically) and the Weiwei is beautiful and extraordinary, even if you can't now climb into it. But more than anything, the evening was significant as the first to include, in our number, master Milo Roseman. Such an adorable little poppet, if ever there was one.

Paloma's Birthday Party

Final post from last weekend, for Paloma's birthday party on Sunday afternoon. One of the many unexpected delights about being parents, I wasn't previously aware of, is that you get to meet loads of other like minded people, with children the same age as yours, who live in the neighbourhood. So I really enjoyed this party, having lots of good Dad chat, with other Dads and seeing all our babies having a good time together and loving doing 'hop little bunnies'.

I didn't get to mention before that last weekend was a major landmark for little Lookie. Not only is he now taking a night time, bottle, feed from me but he has slept in his own room since last Friday night. He was also babysat, for the first time, by his Granny and Grandpa and on Saturday afternoon he giggled, a proper belly laugh, for the very first time. An amazing and very happy sound. He's also front-facing in his papoose now too.

Dan's Birthday

While my Mum and Dad babysat for Lookie and Ruby; Ibolya and I went out for a very rare evening out together, to the mighty Paradise and a for a dinner to celebrate Dan's 30th birthday. We had a really great time with good friends and lovely people.

George

Our family isn't really known for it's ability on the sports field so I'm incredibly happy and proud that the younger generation of our family are proving themselves highly capable and excellent sports-people. Here's my nephew George, demonstrating his outstanding skills, on the rugby playing fields of Bedford, on Sunday morning.
By all accounts he was man of the match and magnificent, in every respect. Congratulations and well done George!