Have you heard of Marley Spoon? It’s one of the new generation of food delivery services, along the lines of Hello Fresh and Gousto, where you order meals online and are sent recipes and ingredients to prepare and cook at home. We were offered a review of a Marley Spoon box, so what did we…
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Wooden mobiles of wonder from We Are Scamp
We will, at some point, be moving both girls into the same room in our house. Although it’s still a plan at the moment – it seems like such a huge step – I’m looking out for things for their new joint room that are similar but also individual. So I really liked these personalised…
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We’re MAD Blog Award finalists! Nine reasons to vote for us…
I interrupt these ongoing baby rambles to bring you the news that…we are finalists in the 2015 MAD Blog Awards in the best pregnancy blog category. Cue crazy faces and baby-faced selfies. I’m completely thrilled and amazed; the biggest of thank yous to everyone who nominated us. My blog is a labour of love and it means…
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One wedding and a baby dilemma
Last weekend we went to our first wedding in a while where I’ve not been secretly or heavily pregnant. And, as a result, this was swiftly followed by my first hangover in a while (the pain). Having known about the wedding since before Florence was born, I’d vaguely though we’d be OK to leave her,…
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Mother’s ruin; a guide to the horrors of the post-pregnancy hangover
Mother’s ruin…here’s a guide to the horrors of the post-pregnancy hangover… The post-pregnancy hangover…a guide Oh, the whole world of pain that is the post-pregnancy hangover… After years of practice throughout my teens and twenties, I thought I knew hangovers. Ha! I was wrong. One of the less well-known pregnancy side effects is that you turn…
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Everything I’ve completely forgotten about baby weaning
If feeding your child is an act of love then weaning is a messy, messy affair. Quite literally. My new default position is down on the floor, sweeping up bits of discarded food. “Mummy, why are you under the table?” Eliza asks curiously, as Florence grins. I was pretty apprehensive about weaning first-time-round as it seemed…
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Long weekends and Den Days
How was your long weekend? Ours ticked lots of Bank Holiday boxes including the park, a picnic, seeing friends and a touch of DIY (luckily, no traffic jams or trips to B&Q). There was also some highly technical and very professional den making. Didn’t you love making dens as a child? Ours was in aid of…