For sale: one small child, located halfway down the tree-lined streets of toddlerdom. New build, sunny facing aspect. Potential for imminent upwards expansion. Energy rating; uses lots of it, but does need constant refuelling. Special features – the ability to turn a tidy house upside down in an instant. Asking price? OIRO two good nights’…
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Making a big meal out of lunch with Warburtons
This is a sponsored post from Warburtons… When I worked in an office, lunch was a Big. Thing. A major event. The focal point of the day. We’d often start thinking about where we were going to go and what we were going to have right after breakfast. I worked in central London, so you…
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Solving your DIY woes with Bosch
Who does the DIY in your house? Our jobs are divided up on a purely practical level, based on will get them done the best, in the quickest time. So Alex does the home fixing tasks, mainly because he can actually use a toolkit, is taller and actually has an attention span. However,…
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A deluge of door decoration
I am struggling slightly, this week. Among many other things, I really need to find time update my blog, and have a whole list of posts I’d like to write, including ones on mum guilt, house sale issues, bringing up babies in the city, and never having time to update my blog. We also have…
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Special delivery: what’s the best way to get to the hospital to have your baby
So royal baby fever is really ramping up this week. Poor Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton and Prince William; getting to your due date and having everyone text, call and Facebook you to ask if you’ve had that baby yet is agony enough anyway, but it must be a million times more stressful…
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Crystal Palace Overground Festival 2013
Forget Glastonbury; this weekend was the annual Crystal Palace Overground Festival (no Stones, slightly less mud and lots more Bugaboos). There had been good things going on all week, but Saturday was the big event in the park so we headed on over.
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Breastfeeding in public – it’s not unusual
Here’s some of the extreme places Eliza and I have breastfed over the past 18 months: