It’s a place where toddlerisms make sense but not much else, where everything is all at once a bit too dull, and a bit too bright, you forget your own name, why you are standing in front of the fridge and even why you went into the kitchen in the first place. Welcome to the…
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Marley Spoon food delivery service; good for families?
Read moreHave 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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One wedding and a baby dilemma
Read moreLast 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
Read moreMother’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
Read moreIf 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
Read moreHow 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…
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The mother law, or why we’re always late
Read moreThe mother law: everything that can possibly go wrong just before you’re due to leave the house with small children, does. Leaving the house pre-children is really, really easy; I laugh now at how easy it was. It involves a) making sure you have your phone, bag and keys and b) walking out of the…
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