Here’s the latest video from my brother Sam’s band The Phoenix Foundation. Gosh his beard is getting rather bushy! It is an ace video though. How did they get Will to agree to those tiny tiny shorts?

Buy their album Happy Ending! It is a work of GENIUS I tells ya.
While we’re on a YouTube kick, […]

We’re settling in pretty well in the new land. In some ways it’s like we’ve never been away! The new house is a ramshackle beast, very roomy, set amongst a tangled jungle of weeds and exotic plants. I spotted a blue tongued lizard yesterday near the letter box but it quickly vanished into the undergrowth. […]

Yesterday Archie walked in the door from school, put Prince on the stereo and then sat at the kitchen table to read “Habitat” magazine. He is a rather unusual six year old! He discovered an old Prince compilation of mine and it’s currently his favourite. It is pleasant after the unending rounds of Bob the […]

The tooth fairy has visited our house for the first time! Archie has lost one of his bottom canines. It was wobbly for a while and then it popped out - no doubt with a little help from Jan who was obsessed with wiggling it. It seems rather freaky that all his teeth are going […]

Sam sent me this pic of Harry having a bash over Christmas. What a rocker!
Archie is going great at school, apart from being sick for 50% of the days so far. Hopefully that is just a temporary aberration, he is back now and raring to go.
I have just discovered Threadless and am obsessed, though as […]

Archie on his first day of school:

He is very excited!

Archie finally starts school tomorrow (after a week long delay while the school found a teacher aide for him). He is very excited! And we are very nervous…. Here’s hoping it all goes well! What a momentous day!
Another momentous day is not far off, the annual Jems Oscar bash! Invites will be sent out shortly […]

Archie had his adenoids and tonsils out yesterday! He stayed in hospital last night but is home now, having a fine old time watching DVDs and eating ice cream. Hopefully this will help him with his constant colds.
And on an unrelated topic, Natalie Portman is a tough motherf***er:

Harry had a lovely birthday party yesterday. It was our first time ever running party games like Pass the Parcel and Musical Chairs. That Musical Chairs is a vicious frenzied contest, there were tears and bruises galore. Maybe next year we’ll be brave enough for Pin The Tail On The Donkey.
Here’s a Harry birthday video […]