I’ll preface this by saying that i am extremely, but extremely grateful for how well the business has done this year, that i know exactly how lucky we are to have a thriving business, customers who come back, friends and family who support us, buy from us, help us and on top of that, in […]

Max, his dad and his brother have gone to watch some rugby somewhere, so i’ve had a day at home with the kids. All of the big girls have got a musical theatre exams coming up, so we’ve practised that. They each have to do a poem with actions and then they have to sing […]

There are a lot of balls in the air… i’m dropping about 1 a day – and i don’t like it. I’d love to do a long and lovely post about trying to run a business that turns over what ours now turns over – but i can’t. I will be taking in work experience […]

There is not masses to say at the moment except that even if we aren’t doing anything flash, we’re doing a damn site better than we were doing this time last year. Kids are working, playing, dancing, music-ing, reading, writing, crafting, drawing and being and we’re mainly trying to oversea the packing of parcels – […]

Josie was extremely thrilled this week when we bought her a sub to Education City;i put her on the nursery level (lots of rhymes, some letters and numbers and basic computer skills) and she has loved it all week. I think it is mainly the opportunity to do some “education maffs” that appeals to her […]

Fran started in April (i think) and in total has had 12 lessons now (i think) as that 6 months has included the summer holidays. She’s taught herself this, this week, which feels like a great thing to me, because i very quickly turned into a “do the bare minimum to suffice” type of music […]

One thing i did manage to achieve on Thursday was getting costumes for the big 2 for their Mad Hatters Tea Party, which was no mean feat as every non-branded, brightly coloured thing seemed to be sold out. Ended up with a green t-shirt with waistcoat printed on it for Fran and some mad tights […]

(Boom, boom!) On Wednesday, Josie was 4. We started early-ish with her presents, (mummy only a LITTLE bleary eyed by staying up too late to watch the election results start to come in) and she was very thrilled with wooden cakes and biscuits, numbers and a magnetic board and a small host of Baby Stella […]