Have had a lot of opportunity to reflect on parenting back when I had Fran compared to parenting Bene now lately. I’ve had children across three different decades and two different centuries – not only does that sound dramatic, but it really is. When I had Fran there were only really videos to watch (and […]
Editorial: Five Simple Changes for a Healthier Home and Family
The number of children and adults who are overweight or obese is on the rise in the UK. According to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), the proportion of obese children in Year 6 in 2012/13 (18.9%) was higher than in 2006/07 (17.5%). 26% of women and 19% of men aged 16 and […]
Parenting before the internet #BootsBaby125Years
Hello you. I must look so polished these days, from the outside. I’m pretty practiced at parenting now. I haven’t forgotten you. Those early days. Packing a tiny, still be-lip-stitched baby girl into a pram, back in the days when navigating the front step seemed such a hurdle, never mind the minefield of an unexpectedly […]
Fudge Muffins!
I’ve been working on a set of muffin recipes that are easy to do and I can’t get wrong to make lunch boxes cheaper and healthier. My first attempt at healthy banana and sultana muffins have become pretty well liked and so I branched out. It’s not wildly different but these are pretty yummy and […]
Sponsored video: Flavour of Home.
The new Knorr “Flavour of Home” campaign has got me thinking about how we changed our meals for the better in this house. Not long after milk intolerance hit the household, Max made the bold step into proper home cooked food for the family every day, with meals always eaten together around the table and […]
Willpower and me. Ways round my rule breaking habits.
I spend an awful lot of time coming up with ‘sensible’ ways to reward myself, my children and the family in general for the mundane nature of life these days. This is mainly because I have an awful lot of NOT SENSIBLE ways of rewarding that I really need to break as habits. I let […]
Soothing Stitches: Spring wreath creation.
Short, sweet and late but here is a work in progress of the wreath I’m making for Freddie’s birthday this year. I feel I should be more invested in this; it’s Freddie fifth ‘should be birthday’ this week and I’m simultaneously overwhelmed with grief that is stifling me and overwhelmed by other things that […]
Looking at Nutmeg as a way of planning our financial future.
I grew up in the type of household where money had a bit of a habit of not being there. It was a silly kind of not there, in many ways; it wasn’t the ‘turn off the fridge’ type of poverty we hear more about today than ought to be reported in a UK country. […]
Watching our Solar System by Live Feed in a Safe Environment.
I’ve just done a quick check to find out what the schools our kids go to are doing to help kids experience the eclipse tomorrow. The answer, unsurprisingly and in keeping with a lot of other schools, is they won’t be allowed to be outside to feel the world go dark and hear the birds […]
Trollbeads at Mercy Jewellery – I'm in love!
A few weeks ago I got incredibly lucky and won a Valentine Trollbead from Mercy Jewellery, who have a vibrant and hopelessly enticing Facebook page to support their Cambridge jewellery shop. My Valentine bead arrived (in an impossible cute display box) and then I was asked if I would like to review a bracelet to […]
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