I had a lot of vague but relatively grand plans for Freddie’s 10th birthday. Somewhere in my head I decided, years ago now, that this would be the point where I would have reached a serene understanding and acceptance of my little baby boy dying without ever leaving a hospital. I thought this would be […]
“The last thing I want to do is document it all.”
I said this last week (to Who’s the Mummy, as it happens), to explain why I never blog any more. And, to be fair (to coin an overused phrase favourite of of of my teens, the run up to Xmas felt fairly miserable, for not even the right reason of our shops being nice and […]
11 days.
It passes in a flash these days, those 11 days between a birthday trip out and these minutes, when I was holding him in my arms and watching him drift away forever. 11 nights of candles, 11 days of quietly mulling over what was happening each day and where we were in that beautiful, hellish […]
Not 6.
It really gets me every year that these were my last few happy minutes, minutes where really I’d never had anything to be utterly crushed by, ever again. It doesn’t really work like that of course. There are plenty of happy moments, not least because I learned to be grateful for Freddie in so many […]
Christmas Crochet Wreath.
We got the Christmas Decorations up last night, the annual strewing of pretties around the house which has, thankfully, become largely a joyful affair again over the last couple of years. It reminded me, as we unpacked the boxes, of the wreath I made last year which I had such great intentions of doing a […]
Soothing Stitches: Crochet Mandala Happy.
I don’t seem to have completed nearly as many projects as I hoped to this year, not least because of time constraints that have sucked my crochet time away and left me grateful if I manage a single row or block in the tail end of an evening. It’s annoying, especially since it is robbing […]
When the girl played for England #EnglandTouch
This summer had so many things in it that never got blogged, one of which was when Fran got to wear an England shirt. After a shaky start to her rugby playing career (roughly 6 years ago when we took her to play in cold and MUD and she told us she hated us!) Fran […]
How to have the perfect date night after 17 years of marriage #VelvetNightIn
Yeah. About that. If your marriage has been as prolific as ours has been, a quiet night in probably isn’t something you can remember; lately we feel blessed if everyone has beetled off to bed by 10pm, and that includes the boy, who is not famed for his early nights. Latterly, Max and I have […]
Editorial: 6 ways to look after your health this winter
We’ve had an attack of croup this weekend – Bene is particularly susceptible to it – and it has reminded me that winter is well and truly here and that the scourge of winter bugs that can sweep through 7 people in a house and bring misery is once again on top of us. My […]
Keeping it Plenty Clean ;)
Anyone who is gradually shuffling off the trappings of early parenthood will know that one of the greatest losses of that time period is the end of baby wipes in the house. The time between Josie no longer needing a bum clean and Bene arriving was a time of drought and desolation in the cleaning […]
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