Am I Done Having Babies? If So, How Do I Know? Question: How DO you know when you’re done having babies? Do you ever know for sure you won’t have any more children? Asking for, well, someone…who’s not sure if she’s done having babies! Because at the end of last year, Florence turned three and…
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How To Build A Lego Table To Store Lego And Duplo
Read moreAre You Drowning In Lego And Duplo? Here’s How We Built A Portable Lego Table Here’s how we build a Lego table…If your house is anything like our house – which I imagine, if you have small children, it probably is – then there will be a lot of Lego around. Mainly on the floor,…
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17 completely unspectacular things I’ve done in 2017
Read moreWith it being so very nearly the end of the year – HOW did that happen? WHEN did that happen? Wasn’t it just the summer? Wasn’t it just…January…? – it is, as always, a time for contemplation and reflection about the last twelve months. A popular Twitter meme at the moment calls for people to…
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Why We Love The Library
Read moreSeven Reasons Why We Love The Library ‘Libraries gave us power…’ sang the Manic Street Preachers in what’s still one of the best songs ever (right?). The library played a massive, and massively empowering, role in my own childhood and for so many people I know. And all these years on we love the library…
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Five things: Christmas charity campaigns to support this festive season
Read moreLooking For A Christmas Cause? Here Are Five Christmas Charity Campaigns If you’re looking to donate to a good cause this Christmas, here are five Christmas charity campaigns for giving back. Christmas Jumper Day for Save The Children: Christmas jumper day is a-coming on Friday 15th December, and is the annual festive charity celebration organised by…
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I have the power! How to save energy as a family
Read moreHow do you save energy as a family? It’s tricky to save energy as a family when you seem to use a lot of it – heating always on, three washer loads a day….sound at all familiar? One of the ways we save energy as a family is with smart meters from British Gas, which…
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In praise of Tamara Ecclestone, or why I’m breastfeeding my three-year-old
Read moreTamara Ecclestone is back on TV again, something I know about not because I’ve seen her new reality programme, but because the press is reacting with horror at the fact that she is still breastfeeding her daughter, in it – and daring to talk, openly and in public, about breastfeeding a three-year-old *shocked face*. I…
