Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
I have a new friend who I met via this blog. Her elder brother had a terrible motorbike accident nearly two weeks ago and is in a coma with every bone in his body broken. I’m thinking of Caz and how she is coping with this devastating news on the same week that I’m remembering [...]
Cripes. Nobody told me how much extra work sowing a vegetable garden from scratch is or how much space you need to put the little seeds/seedlings if you haven’t got a greenhouse (we haven’t, and we haven’t got deep windowsills either) OR how you’d have to find a babysitter for the sproutlings to water them [...]
Last night I wrote a page of Caravanning Essentials, things we think we’ll need to take with us when we go caravanning with the 1996 5 berth Coachman Oasis touring caravan we are buying from nearby Country Choice Caravans.
We’ve just got back from a lovely Easter break to Criccieth, North Wales where we stayed in [...]
How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world.
by Vicki Robin
We’ve just come back from an idyllic 4 days away by the seaside enjoying really special cloudless blue skies and warm temperatures but as soon as we got back home I felt so blue by what seemed to be an enormous mountain of chores staring at me from each room.
The kids playroom is looking particularly [...]
Admittedly I’m typing this list after staying for a few days in a super luxurious static caravan which had all the mod-cons of home: oodles of space, central heating, a fully equipped large kitchen, decking etc etc but it got Bealers and me thinking about putting together a comprehensive checklist of the things we would [...]
I popped outside on Thursday night just to fetch something in and was surprised to see that the kids had emptied a great pile of soil onto the grass when they know this is expressly forbidden. After a moment I realised that Bealers and I had been out in the garden long after the kids [...]
A lot of lucky kids have playhouses in the garden which are smashing but they do cost a fortune. This new structure in the garden for our kids to play in cost £40 for materials (willow ‘withy wood’, twine and weed-free membrane) plus a half-day of labour. It looks quite pretty already but it should [...]