• Late to the party

    July 22, 2015

    This summer, about three hundred years after everyone else, I finally bought myself some Saltwater sandals (they’re the ones that look like toddler shoes that everyone’s been raving about for ages). And guess what? They’re brilliant, who’d have thought? I don’t know why it took so long – I’ve had them in my virtual shopping…

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  • Swingball, Screwballs and sprinkler bans – the summers of my childhood

    July 16, 2015

       Having a toddler who’s now old enough to really enjoy summer – and all the associated paddling pool paraphernalia – is bringing back so many memories about my own childhood, growing up in the 1980s and 1990s. Wasn’t the summer brilliant when we were younger?  The six week holiday was second only to Christmas…

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  • On the right foot – children, shoes and choices

    July 15, 2015

       My daughter has a new thing; deliberately wearing her shoes on the wrong feet. Funny, right..? Well, let me explain.

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  • Crying over spilt milk

    July 9, 2015

    OK, it’s finally happened. I have descended into a parody version of motherhood after adverts made me cry, twice, in a minute.

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  • Home, and away

    July 5, 2015

    We are home from our holiday, having had an amazing time and a insane amount of fun.  Bizarrely, we seemed to take a toddler and a small baby and returned with one water-loving small adult and one young child with lots of hair. Why do holidays make your children grow so much?

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  • Things I don’t miss about life before children

    June 29, 2015

      Are we too negative about motherhood? Everything I seem to read now is about how boring it is, or how much you have to give up and sacrifice, or how things become tricky and complicated when you have children. Clearly, lots of people are missing a trick. Along with all the good stuff you…

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  • Packing for two…plus two

    June 23, 2015

       Oh, the places you’ll go. But first there’s packing. When you have two children it’s a process that takes so long it starts before you’ve actually booked the holiday.  Whereas packing for just two is purely done on fun (how many bikinis can I justify taking? Oh, here’s one more. Do I need another…

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