What’s your favourite pairs of shoes and why? Here’s my top three: 1) My wedding shoes, lovely lovely Jimmy Choos. For all the obvious reasons. They are having a bit of a sabbatical at the moment as alas, I don’t get much cause to wear them to the park or playgroup 2) My newest pair,…
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Subtracting Ofsted from the early childhood learning equation
Today we have a very special guest post, from none other than Grannie G, my mother-in-law and the original Gill Crawshaw (yes, it can get confusing at Christmas). She’s been the manager of the lovely Slinn Street STARters Community Pre-school in Sheffield for 28 years and is passionate about the nurturing the happiness and well-being…
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The best dresses for breastfeeding
Did you struggle to find the best dresses for breastfeeding, or any clothes you liked that were suitable for breastfeeding? Thrilled post-birth at thought of being able to wear all my normal outfits again, I soon realised that most of my wardrobe was ruled out due to lack of easy boob access. Tops were mostly…
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Three things from the weekend
1) We paid our first visit to the Horniman Musuem in Forest Hill. A tweeting walrus, fluorescent fish, what more could you want? If you’ve not been already, go! We took the Overground from Crystal Palace and discovered the life-changingly amazing news that the lifts in the station are now working. If you’ve ever been to the…
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Take A Trip To The The Horniman Museum, Forest Hill
Have You Been To The Horniman Museum? If Not, Here’s Why You Should Go Have you been to the Horniman Museum in London? Located in Forest Hill in south-east London, the Horniman is a brilliant museum for kids – and adults – with an aquarium, butterfly house, instrument room, huge gardens with musical instruments, an…
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What to expect when you’re expecting…and beyond
What websites did you read when you were pregnant? Like most mums-to-be, I couldn’t get enough of information about the fruit size of my baby that week, what that strange feeling was, and finding out what spectacularly weird thing was going to happen next. I devoured all this during my commute to work (by the way,…
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Minding the – baby age – gap
What’s the perfect gap between babies? I know, déjà vu, I’ve talked about this before. But it’s been on my mind today as I realised that if I got pregnant this month then there would be exactly two years between children. We’d previously thought that would be along the lines of the right gap size…