My children love Ribena. It’s not particularly good for them of course, so I tend to water it down a lot and we have a rule that they can only have it with meals. They still manage to go through an enormous bottle of it every week though. And the reason they go through so much of it is that they seem to forever be spilling...
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If you have a child starting reception this September, you may have begun to get together a few bits and pieces of uniform. Unless you are going to a private school with a hugely expensive uniform, you can probably pick up most items in the sales right about now. It’s not a bad idea. But, if you have a school starter for...
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We’ve just survived our first week of of Year 6 SATs. It’s been a tense week. Actually, it’s been a tense month and I’m sure ours wasn’t the only household suffering. For those of you who have been through the Year 2 version, let me tell you that the KS2 SATs are nothing like the KS1 SATs. KS1 kids...
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Like many mums of more than one of the same sex, I get to see that many of the supposed gender-specific behaviours are actually anything but. My girls like football, climbing things, cars and lego, as well as dressing up, dolls and colouring in. On the other hand, DS loves soft toys, fairy dresses and crafty stuff. Since having a...
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Baby chicks that is, not human babies before any of my ILs read this and get too excited. This morning when we checked on Mama Tit, she was sitting tight on her nest, as she has been for the last few days. Her mate has really got the hang of feeding her lately and seems to be in and out of the box with food all the time. We knew the...
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A couple of months ago my FB timeline was completely clogged with people begging me for Candy Cane lives. Oh, how I laughed as I ignored their pleas. How could fully functional adults get so caught up in a computer game? How pathetic they were. Well, dear reader, I am laughing on the other side of my face now. For my name is Jacq...
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