Max and I had very different childhoods. I was still playing with my Barbies (secretly!) at 16 while he had been partying very hard indeed for some time by that age. I came from a household where taboo subjects stayed taboo, whether alcohol or sex or anything in-between and had a curfew of midnight even […]
Clic Sargent and Scarlett Jewellery
The time we spent hanging over the cot of a desperately sick child was, in some respects, mercifully short. While I would have wished for longer with him, the job of a parent is to try to do what is right for a child and in Freddie’s case, making him stay alive to endure endless […]
Lego challenges and face drawings
Max and I went to register Ben today, something that, for simplicity, has to be done in the next town. I wanted to do it here, in the one that the girls were registered at, as only Freddie was registered at the other one and i thought it would be very triggery but in the […]
Foggy headed mumma
Goodness this is hard work. I really wonder how on earth I managed when I had a newborn and 3 under 6 years old and. Business to run. I must have had a damn site more energy than I do now, anyway. Thankfully, with Max at home doing everything else, I can at least just […]
Ning Nang Nonsense Poetry
I’ve got a huge stack of proper educational posts from about last September that I really want to write. They all seem to be stuck permanently in draft waiting for me to take photos or upload videos or goodness knows what. It’s annoying that the most educational things we’ve done over the last 4 months […]
Half term was mainly brought to us by….
PR parcels. 😆 oh, with added Hama, fimo and junk modelling, which means no great change here 🙂 I had every intention of a good half term as I really wanted to make the most of Fran being off school but I was probably being over optimistic in all sorts of ways. However, in the […]
How times change.
We are now into the 4th year since Max left being employed by someone other than us and the fifth year since he worked full time. I feel like, even without all the added complications of the tragedy that then befell us, I’m only really properly recovered from 5 years of trying to be a […]
St Patrick Day craft.
One or other of the children pointed out that with rainbows and green as his theme, we should have called Ben Patrick instead. I did try, but no one would have it at the time 🙂 Today I wanted to do something crafty with the girls and got as far as pulling out some inspiration, […]
Craft plans from my sofa.
One thing you don’t really get to do when you have 3 other children under 6 and a husband who needs to be back at work 6 days after you leave hospital with your low iron levels and your newly soft furnished mind, is babymoon. Life after Josie was born was more an exercise in […]
Finished It Friday: Marmite's Nina Blanket
I was reasonably pleased with the first baby blanket I knitted for Marmite. I had wanted squares and a sort of ‘organised’ feel to it and it came up much as I hoped. But the way I constructed it meant the back was quite raw and ‘back of something’ like and I think it will […]
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