• On the wall: displaying children’s art in our mini gallery

    February 24, 2016

    Children’s art work – is your house completely awash in it? If it’s anything like ours, then it’s everywhere. We have millions of pictures and pieces of artwork and general all-round crafty…creations that the children bring home from nursery and make themselves at any opportunity. (E brings home a whole drawer-full every day, some just…

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  • (Bed)room for two

    July 26, 2015

    Siblings sharing bedrooms…does it work? Is it a lovely and cosy vision of harmony, or a complete logistical nightmare? I ask because this is our future plan, but we’re staying my parent’s house this week and I’m still recovering from this evening’s attempts to get both girls to go to sleep in one room. They were…

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