Dear Bene, You are now older than Josie was when we first moved to this house. You are the age Fran was when she became a big sister and almost the age Freddie should have been when you were born. You might still be very little but you are now so very… very… big. Such […]
Archives for 2013
We don't talk about the SCBU days.
I’m writing today at Glow in the Woods about the reality of parenting after losing a child who lived his whole life in the care of the medical people we trust with our lives and who couldn’t save him. I don’t write much about the SCBU days. It’s still too painful to think about, let […]
It's been outstanding… #MadBlogAwards
So. A friend, or two, say you should start blogging and you think about it for a while and you think that maybe you will. You write about the first words a daughter says and how it feels when wasp larvae eat the caterpillars and there are a lot of Hama Beads and an awful […]
Musings on a MAD few years.
In an hour or so I will attend my third – and probably my last – MAD blog awards. I’m incredibly lucky to be in the outstanding contribution category, and very honoured too. I’m in with an amazing bunch of women, people I have come to really care about over the last three years. As […]
Review: Window Art with Post-it Notes
Now here is a match made in heaven, a blogger who once had her roots in easy early years crafting, who loves stationery and spends her life trialing and selling crafty loveliness…. I can’t go wrong with a Post-it Note window art challenge! Josie adored this, really loved it. An envelope full of pleasing stacks […]
Home educating for a day.
The trouble with slightly milking how ill you are with a cold while your ex home educating mummy is very sleepy, is that when she realises you’ve got one over on her, she has weapons. Today has mostly been brought to Josie by education city, reading eggs, tricky word practice and Oxford reading tree. Bwahahaha. […]
Sponsored Video: Love in a Handstand
The cozy, gleeful moments of being a child are the quiet, unexpected chats with a parent or grandparent, dipping into the memories of their courtships and early relationships. Those moments which built them – and ultimately built you – which seemed like distant history, a time when their hair was not grey flecked, the middle […]
The Last Hurrah.
In my head, home education is over for us now. I can’t see Fran or Amelie returning to it and I hope that school will shake down well for Maddy and Josie; both of them seem to be managing even if not perhaps quite as smoothly as the other two. Even Bene starts a trial […]
This bit of me.
I think I once knew these as ‘Preacher in the Pulpit’, a long time ago, when people told me the names of flowers. I think, confused, I mixed up pulpit with spit and believed they grew from the untouchable, improbable, highly suspicious cuckoo spit that foamed and flawed the weeds of our walks. Spit. Pulpit. […]
Most random ever blog freebie that made us do stuff!
Ages ago I got sent a rather fab T-shirt that had been made using stains for me by Dermot Flynn by Persil who are launching their new Small & Mighty detergent. Since it was a size ten, Maddy got to wear it. I might be dieting, but I’m not sure me and a size 10 […]
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