I was trying to explain our schedule of life earlier on (twice in two days actually, as you do) and it struck me that it might be an interesting moment to write out how our week pans out at this point in time. I’ve noticed that I blog less often now, which relates less to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sponsored Video: Love in a Handstand
The cozy, gleeful moments of being a child are the quiet, unexpected chats with a parent or grandparent, dipping into the memories of their courtships and early relationships. Those moments which built them – and ultimately built you – which seemed like distant history, a time when their hair was not grey flecked, the middle […]
The Last Hurrah.
In my head, home education is over for us now. I can’t see Fran or Amelie returning to it and I hope that school will shake down well for Maddy and Josie; both of them seem to be managing even if not perhaps quite as smoothly as the other two. Even Bene starts a trial […]
Review: Walkers #MightyLights Crisps plus "what goes in your lunchboxes?"
In a perfect world, I would have a lovely picture for you of my children happily chomping on the new 30% less fat crisps that Walkers recently sent us to review. Unfortunately, they arrived as we arrived home from holiday, the children were starving and they ripped into them like a plague of locusts who […]
LIfe from the Laundrette.
Two week holidays mean doing a load of washing midweek. It’s a novelty for me to go to a laundrette, even more to have a quiet morning of domestic jobs that give me quiet moments in between. If I went to a laundrette at home, I’d be supervising my washing to make sure it didn’t […]
Dartmeet & Haytor Quarry… we heart Devon.
Determined not to let a broken foot cramp our style, we’ve been going about normal Dartmoor business, albeit with a few extra stops and picking our walks more carefully. Amelie’s foot is actually suddenly a lot better (we dunked it in the healing waters of Exmouth, renown Raymond medicine for feet…) and she has managed […]
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