It’s a familiar scene of devastation from my childhood. Battle worn, cracked and broken, hopes and dreams shattered as another beast hits the deck and dies a death. Conkers. Oh how I loved the days when Goose Fair came to Nottingham and the netball courts were filled with rides; instead of sport, we went conker […]
Amelie again. Another trip to hospital.
You know how some children just cause you nothing but trouble in the health care department? In this house, that’s Amelie. This week she excelled herself with a dramatic bit of poorliness we still haven’t got to the bottom of that resulted in some of this… Another trip to a&e. It started very suddenly on […]
Review: Chewits Crazy Carnival App
It’s hard to say no to the offer of a game to play and a box of sweeties, so the girls were very happy to be offered the Chewits Crazy Carnival Facebook app to epxlore recently, in return for a day out and a box of Chewits. There has been much gaming and much chewing […]
The boy and the train.
When we are old and the kids are all grown, we will remember the days when one of us just took them to something they would love, for the hell of it. We will forget the washing and untidy bedrooms and endless yelling and food on the floor and plates left unstacked. It will be […]
At 20 months.
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 […]
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. […]
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