• All at sea

    June 20, 2016

    Help, how do you entertain two small children cooped up in a house that resembles a building site, when it’s raining? Will it all come flooding back? I think I’ve forgotten… It’s my first day back at ‘work’ following our holiday (we actually left the house this time, I know! We went on an extended…

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  • Park life lately

    May 23, 2016

    Big cause for celebration this weekend as we *left the house.* We’d been under home arrest for a while due to this and thisĀ (which hasn’t been great timing as the house is currently full of noise and dust and stuff due to our ongoing building work).

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  • Spring greens and a touch of the pre-school blues

    April 8, 2016

    The days are long but the years are short, they always tell you about parenting – and oh boy, sometimes *those* days are really, really long – but what they don’t say is that you’ll blink once, maybe twice, and all of a sudden your tiny newborn baby will be going to school.

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  • How not to leave the house when you have small children, in 5000 steps

    March 31, 2016

    Why oh why is it so hard to leave the house when you have small children?

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  • The Politics Of Paw Patrol – I Have Some Questions

    March 18, 2016

    The Politics Of Paw Patrol But First – Who’s A Fan Of The Pups? The politics of Paw Patrol…i have SO MANY QUESTIONS. But first, Paw Patrol! Who’s seen it? Who’s not seen it? Paw Patrol is one of *those* inexplicably popular kids TV programmes with a theme tune so catchy it digs a hole…

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  • Life With Two Kids – What Other Mothers Don’t Tell You

    February 11, 2016

    What’s Life With Two Kids Really Like? What’s life with two kids really like? Here’s what other mother’s don’t tell you (especially when you’re pregnant!) Brilliant / Awful / Exhausting / Energising / Tiring / Spiritually fulfilling / You’ll have your hands full! / They’ll slot right in! All vague things that other mothers of…

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  • The bottom of the washing basket, Narnia, and other mythical places

    December 16, 2015

    One of the – many – things people gloss over about life with two children is the amount of washing there is. Seriously, so much washing. It seems to breed and breed too, like a Gremlin plus water after midnight. Does the bottom of the washing basket even exist? I suspect not…

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