Considering my children’s favourite word at the moment is ‘Epic’, used when they consider something fabulous or amazing, as soon as I saw the trailers for this film I knew we had no chance of avoiding it. DS got to see it a couple of weeks ago with his aunt, which left his older sisters frothing at the mouth with...
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I admit that I have had a bit of a love/ hate relationship with yoghurt. I was 8 when I was put on my first diet because I was a ‘ bit chubby’. Biscuits and sweets were withdrawn and I was offered yoghurt, rice cakes, beans sprouts and cottage cheese instead. Not surprisingly, these substitutions didn’t hit the...
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In case you didn’t notice, it rained quite a lot during half term. It’s always tricky finding something non weather-dependent for the kids to do when the weather should be good. During the winter, you expect it to be cold and wet, but during the spring and summer months everyone just wants to get out of the house. We...
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My Guest Poster today is Cressida Downing. Cressida is an Editorial Consultant, as well as a mum of two, and a self-proclaimed follower of the Frequent Gin school of parenting. She runs her own consultancy over at The Book Analyst and also blogs for Writers and Artists regularly, but sometimes gets the urge to do a bit of...
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This coming September my eldest child will start secondary school. She is excited, but also a bit scared. Me, I’m mostly terrified for her. I know she’ll be fine but I’ve been doing my bit as the over involved mother by Googling and following Secondary School starter threads on Mumsnet. But DD doesn’t want...
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I’ve got some bad news I’m afraid. On Wednesday, we had seven chicks in the nest. They seemed very active, cheeping loudly and were obviously very hungry! Some were bigger than others, and the smaller chicks were getting squashed under their larger siblings. So I was disappointed , but unsurprised when we came down...
read moreOur first eggs hatched a week ago. Six hatched the first day, and another three in the following days. At one point we definitely saw nine chicks but never ten. Now there are only eight chicks. We didn’t see what happened to the one that disappeared; for all I know it could still be at the bottom of the nest! But the parent...
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