Colleen and Ross's 60th

Swinging Sixties
Colleen and Ross celebrated their 60th birthdays with a swinging sixties party.

Ross was born on 29 February so it was actually only his 15th birthday.

I wore Hils's gorgeous sixties-inspired dress and Jim channelled Leonard Cohen. Another guest told me she had a dress just like mine for her engagement party in 1966.

Caspie’s Easter egg

At Montessori playgroup this week Caspie created the first craft project of his life. He artfully arranged the pompoms on the egg and glued them on himself.

Casp's egg was clearly the best in terms of artistic merit and technical skill. Of course.

The Powers That Be have banned chocolate so this is the closest he will get to an Easter egg this year. But what a magnificent beginning to his creative life.

Schnuppertag
Although it's still months before Mads starts school she has already had her orientation day. This is known in Germany as Schnuppertag (sniffing about day). Mere tells us Mads ran all the way there and didn't want to leave at the end. She chose a seat right under the teacher's nose rather than sit with kids she knew. Another girlyswot like her mother but, alas, unlike her grandmother.

Grand Prix? What Grand Prix?

"Quick. Let's get out of here!", said Caspie early on Saturday morning.