Reason No. 19

I love Amelie more than I did yesterday because on the way to her swimming lesson she said to me "I'm never going to stop loving you Mummy, even after I'm dead" - not as depressing as it sounds but due to the fact that last week I recited to her my favourite poem, Sonnet 43 from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ("and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death").

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because we went on a 'bear hunt' up Stanage Edge this morning, and when we found footprints, we tried to guess what they came from. Seth's first suggestion was not a dog, sheep or cow but a unicorn (definitely been watching too much Dora The Explorer)!

And here are some pictures of the family up Stanage Edge - beautiful sunny weather, virtually no-one around, and only the church bells from Hathersage in the distance.