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 […]

“Remember, remember, the 5th of November…” I don’t really, not the one from 2004, except that i ended up with a gorgeous little girl, Josephine Susannah Belle, who was born on that day. After 4 years i’ve finally written up her birth story and you can find it over on the left of the blog […]

“I am writing to you to tell you that Amelie doesn’t want to tidy her room but she does want us to tidy it so she can watch Merlin.” “Do you think it is fair that Josie can make mess in the room while we tidy it and then we have to tidy that mess […]