Photos shamelessly borrowed from this post. Here’s a parenting confession, of sorts; until recently, I had never taken Eliza swimming. Cue gasps from the back. I’m not sure what it is about swimming, but once your baby is out of the aquatic confines of your amniotic fluid, there seems to be some unwritten rule that…
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Win: warm feet for the whole of of the winter
One of my least favourite things about Autumn and Winter is constantly being cold (that, and the risk of getting my hair wet). I’m always cold – even when I was pregnant, I didn’t get the much-talked-about toasty glow at all.
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Three things to do in Madeira, when you’re a toddler
1) Go up in the cable car and be absolutely fascinated by the view and the tiny people, goats and cars below 2) At the top of the mountain, watch the people sledging, take a brief look at the gardens, but most enjoy happily running up and down the steps, over and over again 3)…
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Cruise holidays for parents
I wrote my tips for cruise holidays with children…but what about for parents? So covering booze, boobs and bad attempts at cupcake making; here’s some things to think about for day…and night:
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Cruise holidays with children
Going on a cruise and looking for tips on taking children? As I think I might have mentioned once or twice, we’re just back from our family holiday. We went with Royal Caribbean on the Independence of the Seas, for an 11 day cruise around the Canary Islands and Spain. It is not the sort…
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19 pieces of advice to my formerly pregnant self, on the eve of giving birth
What would you go back and tell yourself on the night before you gave birth, armed with what you know now? I was watching the BBC2 Midwives programme – responsible for a recent attack of the broods – and started thinking about both Eliza’s birth story and how the actual birth process is such a big focus…
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Up in the air
Things are all up in the air at the moment; both metaphorically and literally. We spent the last weekend of August by the sea, and Eliza learned to say ‘airplane!’ (not unprompted – it was the local air show, where planes fly over the part of the beach you can see from my parent’s house).…