Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
We had a really close shave on Sunday. I took the children to the local car boot sale for a VERY VERY special treat. They were thrilled to be going and within minutes we had found the treasures we had had on our wish lists for ages: a pretty swinging crib and high chair for [...]
Wow, I’m truly amazed. I have had a sore throat that has been getting steadily worse and worse for a few days now. It is getting to the point where I can’t swallow and even my ears were beginning to hurt and I was worrying that I might have full blown tonsillitis.
I typed in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m writing this with tears pouring down my cheeks as I’ve learned this week that one of the mothers I wait in the playground with is having treatment for cervical cancer. Sam is the mother of four young children and was so kind to me when I told her I’d miscarried my pregnancy. When [...]
Funny how being away from my home for three days out of the last seven results in an enormous backlog of domestic duties such as washing, ironing, buying food, hoovering and the like. I caught up big time today after some really lovely special occasions meant I had to be out and about instead of [...]
A week ago today I was looking forward to telling the children that we were expecting a new baby brother or sister for them in early September. We hadn’t told many people about the pregnancy as I was keen to find out that it wasn’t twins again before sharing the joyous news. We’d held off [...]
My kids are very privileged to be involved in my very best friend’s wedding celebrations in March to be held in her local village and then at big ol’ Berkeley Castle. Her fiance is Italian and his family are all very classy so it makes absolute sense that us Brits are to show them a [...]
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Seeing this has brought me back down to earth as I had begun to slip into wishing I had more money so I could buy nicer things.
‘Bunny’ has been in my little daughter’s arms since Edie was born. She started life as a very fluffy pretty little cream toy bought by the twins’ Aunty Madders but after nearly 4 years of ear chewing and cuddling has turned into a greyish, slightly smelly, threadbare thing which Edie has to have [...]