Seven and a half years ago now, I started this blog to talk about my pregnancy. Because, obviously I was the very first person to have a baby (and here’s my first ever post!). I wrote about childbirth, the confusion and joy of the early baby days and what happened next, and then later on,…
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One book a month: The Year of Living Danishly
Read moreHave you read Helen Russell’s The Year of Living Danishly? Here’s what I thought: Here’s the first of my one book a month posts, about The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell… One of the things I decided to do this year was read more books, and I’ve started with The Year of Living…
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Friday Five: Things to do in January
Read moreHello! Here are five things to do in January… And my second regular Friday post, woo! (Let’s see how long this lasts for). This week we have been mainly getting back into things, things being work / nursery / school / after school clubs and so on, how about you? It’s that January no man’s…
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Friday five: things to do in 2019
Read moreHello! How was your Christmas? Happy New Year! Are your decorations still hanging on or are you hoovering pine needles out of the deepest darkest depths of your festively over-saturation soul, still? Either way, it’s a whole new year, and a time of fresh starts and changes and resolutions. Or is it? There seems to…
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Are expensive advent calendars worth the money?
Read moreAre expensive advent calendars worth the money? This year we took the plunge and bought the Playmobil advent calendar (for the children) and the M&S beauty one (for me, but the children opened it, of course). These types of advent calendars are ever-so-slightly more pricey than a simple paper or chocolate countdown, so I wanted…
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The highs and woes of the second-time primary school application
Read moreReader, I have done something weird… But before I tell you about that, is anyone else applying for primary schools at the moment? Is anyone making the primary school application for their second – or third, or so on – child? How’s it all going? Flo is due to start in September 2019, so we’re…
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Three great things for girls
Read moreThis week we’re looking at three great things for girls This week, we’ve found three really good things for girls. Because…’Sometimes it’s haaaaard to be..a woman…’ sang, bizarrely, my 6-y-o into my ear this week. Me: ‘Where did you hear THAT?’ * Ignoring the rest of that song, it seemed like very apt timing as…
