Six years ago I took a big step and hit publish on the first ever post on this blog. Six years on, lots has changed – from pregnancy to now having two children who very much aren’t babies, to job moves and house relocations and renovations.  It’s six years that have seen me write a…

I feel about the second year of primary school as I did about the second day of primary school – why did no-one tell me this would happen? I mean sure, logically, I knew it would happen, obviously, I know, but… You know. It feels like everything’s geared up for Reception – the four years…

We have recently cleared out our house and giant garden shed of stuff in preparation for yet more building work.  In doing so we unearthed a whole load of long-forgotten baby things both children have outgrown – from far too many bags of clothes to the playmat via the cot – that we seem to…

We have been on holiday, hence the radio silence. There was sea, there was sand, and predictably for the UK there was a *lot* of weather. I even read 3/4 of a book and one of us learned to swim underwater. It’s the end of National Breastfeeding Week and there’s a post on TalkMum with…