In the very darkest days of my life, when there was no colour but blue anywhere in the world, no children but baby boys and no solace to be found anywhere outside my own home, I stumbled upon Pinterest. I must have been one of its earliest users and I sunk hours of bleak, grief […]
Archives for May 2013
Time for more clearing out then.
You may remember that we were recently busy clearing out the house as part of the 40 days project? It was pretty successful really and an awful lot of clutter left the establishment. I’d intended to get going on a 40 jobs projects, along with a ’40 nice home making crafts’ project, but that hasn’t […]
Guest Post: Lazy Seamstress Woollen Newborn Baby Clothes Bundle
This weeks 10 Year Blog Anniversary comes from Jeanette at Lazy Seamstress. Jeanette and I have ‘known’ each other for years online, since I first frequented the home birth yahoo groups in my elusive hope of a trouble free baby birthing. She and I have since become even more closely linked after mutually losing our […]
Sunday Stitches
Yesterday (before I succumbed to the cold from Hades) I went on a workshop to learn some pretty knitting skills with Debbie Abrahams; she’s a bit of a knitting hero of mine, as lots of the squares from the survival blanket of 2010-2011 came from her books. It was a lovely day, designed to publicise […]
A New Beginning Looms
Having rather looked forward to celebrating PoPs 10th birthday, I was in a forest with not much signal for the big day. So belatedly, aside from the rather fetching new look I gave the blog last week, I bought I should say 'happy 10th birthday, little blog of minThey've grown up rather. Lot, those Puddle […]
Win a Centerparcs #CPFamilyBreak
I keep peering cautiously outside and wondering if the Summer will ever come… I think it may be here soon though. I really hope so as our Centerparcs holiday is approaching fast now! This month, Centerparcs want to know about your family picnics; all you have to do is put up some photos of your […]
Guest Post: My Quest to Be a Travel Blogger
At the weekend I took a little blogger jolly to #blogsummit, a bloggers get together arranged by the Tots100. It’s a serious event, as you can see from the delegate shots they take. There was a challenge to swap guest post with an envelope and the post below is a fab one from Louise at […]
An almost finished product.
A few weeks ago the girls were involved in a show at a new dance school they’ve joined. All the older three did something solo in it, though Fran also performed lots in group dances, at one point doing three consecutive solos to cover spaces by absentees and also led her little ballet troupe through […]
Growing Fabulous Teens.
If only there were a manual for bring up the perfectly balanced child. Wouldn’t life be simpler? If only, we all sigh from time to time, parenting came with a manual. Not one of the ones you can buy written by people who never had their own child to care for, but one tailor made […]
Not just a girl with Aspergers.
Todays #10wks10yrs post is about Maddy. It’s written with her permission and explains why one of the biggest elements of our life at times through the last 12 years has almost never been discussed on the blog. *** The internet is full of support blogs about children living with Aspergers and Autism these days. They […]
