One year on...

I am brimming with pride - the little darling has completed her first year - and is absolutely adorable.  I am also shamefaced that I have been a lazy Zayde in not blogging about her for the ;ast 3 months - shame on Solly I say!!!  No real excuses, I was travelling quite a bit and also my daughter had moved out of London so it has become quite a journey to visit them.

The Bugaboo also has its birthday present - a special foot muff in matching orange so that the tootsies are kept warm and happy this winter.  These Bugaboo people have the market sewn up, all the accessories that fit and match the original buggy and at 3 times the price of alternative products.  Out of interest I asked the sales person at John Lewis  if other foot muffs would work just as well.  She said 'Yes, but most people with a Bugaboo, get the Bugaboo version although the price is much higher.'  I am sure it will look great, all in bright orange and making a great combo with the yellow raincoat I also got the darling for her special day.


She is almost at toddling stage, she stands very elegantly - ballerina I think - and has a great smile and racous laugh which has a 'Solly' sound to it.

I will try to be better Zayde blogger during the coming months.

She is crawling - backwards..

Nine months on and wow how she has grown! From early concerns about her being underweight to current thoughts that she might be a chubby darling the past 9 months have flashed by.  Unfortunately I have been away a lot of the summer and will not see her again until september.  So, I just wanted to update my readers that all is well and zaydehood is going strong.  I will start blogging again seriously when I return to London.

7 Months on.

How quickly the time passes.  It is now 7 months since I joined the 'Zayde' community.  I feel my loife has changed in many ways.  I was so excited to travel down to see the darling this week, she has grown so much in the month I was away.  She can now hold up her head and she is beginning to crawl.  And, my how she giggles - this is a kid with a big sense of humour.  She has plenty to be happy about anyway, with adoring parents and 2 sets of adoring grandparents she came into the worls with a ready made fan club.

We went for lunch, pushing the famous Bugaboo and after we drifted into Carluccios coffee emporium.  Jokingly ordered a coffee for myself and my daughter and the little one.  The waitress noted it doen - '2 Capuccinos and 1 'babycinno''.. Yes really, a 'babycinno'!!!  I explained I was only being flippant but the waitress was unfazed.  No doubt she will soon be emailing from her 'Baby-pad' - the baby market is growing exponentially and my little darling will be the happy recipient.

Solly Eats Olives - the Angel Eats Spinach

Yes she is enjoying her solids!  How lovely to be tasting things for the very first time.  She enthusiastically munches her spinach - I have the photos to prove it! - so she obviously has healthy little taste buds.  I remember the first time I ate salt beef,  it was at a local N.London cafe/takeaway and I was 12 at the time.  I was with some friends after a night at the local jewish youth club and we went to this 'nosherie' and bought salt beef and lutkes.  it was then that I realised that we were without doubt 'the chosen people'.  I look forward to taking my little granddaughter for her first salt beef on rye sandwich - maybe at Reubens (so few good places left now) - I am sure she will also feel the weight of Judaic history on her shoulders - I will add a hamishe cucumber for good measure ;-)

Limit to Solly's talents

To those who have asked, I am not connected in any way to Solly's restaurant in Golders Green.  I have done many things over the years but selling takeaway falafel isn't one of them.  I am sure it is a great restaurant and I will go there next week with Dov, Myra and the family.  We will be incognito though, Solly is a shy Zayde.

Old Jews telling jokes

I just had a great laugh watching the old jews telling jokes site on youtube.  This is Solly's #1 site of the whole year it is just splendid and one of the joke tellers looks just like Solly - I won't tell you which one though.

Really miss the little darling

It is getting very sad for me to be away from base for so long.  It is now a month since I have seen my little granddaughter and she is already more than 6 months old.  It doesnt seem possible.  She is never out of my mind though and last week I found the cutest pair of jeans for her that should be just the right size when i get bcak home in a couple of weeks time.  She can learn to 'toddle' in them.  My God though, they are so small to look at, but they are marked for one year old so I guess she should fit in them perfectly.  She is beginning to chubby up really well after what you might recall was a slow start.  Lets hope ot stops here though - i dont want her ending up on my friend Brian's site which is for fat people.