I used to really love sewing but somehow I just haven’t had time recently and my trusty sewing machine languished dustily in the garage. I finally got it serviced, only for someone to snap the bobbin holder off and then I… tried to fix it. With superglue. Which dripped down into the workings. Bum. Luckily […]
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Review: Walkers #MightyLights Crisps plus "what goes in your lunchboxes?"
In a perfect world, I would have a lovely picture for you of my children happily chomping on the new 30% less fat crisps that Walkers recently sent us to review. Unfortunately, they arrived as we arrived home from holiday, the children were starving and they ripped into them like a plague of locusts who […]
Doing. Not Thinking. Doing.
I don’t think there is anything I’m more inclined to derisory snarkiness over than people ‘talking the talk but not walking the walk’, people who talk about plans and hopes and dreams who never actually put them into practise or get further than saying they want to do something, be something, achieve something. I’ve realised […]
LIfe from the Laundrette.
Two week holidays mean doing a load of washing midweek. It’s a novelty for me to go to a laundrette, even more to have a quiet morning of domestic jobs that give me quiet moments in between. If I went to a laundrette at home, I’d be supervising my washing to make sure it didn’t […]
Dartmeet & Haytor Quarry… we heart Devon.
Determined not to let a broken foot cramp our style, we’ve been going about normal Dartmoor business, albeit with a few extra stops and picking our walks more carefully. Amelie’s foot is actually suddenly a lot better (we dunked it in the healing waters of Exmouth, renown Raymond medicine for feet…) and she has managed […]
Bene's Bedroom (includes Photowall review)
Seven years ago, we moved into our house with me stinging badly from the knowledge that the fourth bedroom was not, in fact, going to become a bedroom. It’s been many things since, the proper birthplace of BeadMerrily and all the associated businesses and nearly, so nearly, Freddie’s bedroom, even though I never prepared for […]
Away from it all.
There is little better than arriving at our favourite family holiday place. Stick in the muds we may be, but I love arriving, being greeted by dogs who remember us, seeing what has changed, seeing what is still the same. It’s such a beautiful farm in a beautiful spot. The first few days are always […]
Sail Away Center Parcs Competition with Tots 100
Last holiday, my girls spent an awful lot of their holiday knee deep in streams. It’s an appealing way to spend a week or two, there is no doubt about it. They had even more fun, most of them, sailing tiny yoghurt pot lids filled with smurfs down the leat that runs across the cottage […]
Do not say they drive you mad.
If, wearied, you wish the summer holidays to end and peace to reign again at home, I ask you to count. Count the weeks of holiday from now till that 18th year, when examinations stop – and life begins. Count the Christmas tumble weeks, count the raining Easter weeks, count the weeks of trips away […]
Amelie Foot Update Part One
Sunday: As it stands (ha!… or doesn’t stand might be more appropriate), Amelie has done a significant amount of damage to her foot, merely by doing a perfectly normal warm up activity where she happened to go over on one foot. The first trip to A&E left us believing she had just hurt some ligaments […]
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