Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
I was a bit shocked to see that we had overspent by £175 on our Housekeeping account but it is not yet the end of the month. My initial reaction was to be cross with myself for not keeping on top of the spending, for not sticking to the budget and for not doing things [...]
Luckily for my purse and our bank balance we don’t live near to any shops apart from the butcher, the bakery, a small grocery shop and a few charity shops (full of old ladies’ things mainly). When we lived in East London and I worked in the City I found that the majority of my [...]
Having read a leaflet entitled ‘Real Nappies’ about informal drop in sessions being held locally for people wishing to find out more about using washable nappies I went along to a ‘Nappacino’ event and saw a very knowledgeable woman who knows all about using disposable nappies as a cheaper, more environmentally friendly and altogether less [...]
This week I realised I have managed to gather everything I will need for the expected new addition to our family due sometime in January.
The icing on the cake was being the winning bidder on eBay for a fantastic Graco travel system/pram/pushchair/car seat (*with* senior & junior cupholders!) which is a bit of a dream [...]
A slightly shocking discovery was made this week when an eBay seller told me she had been made to stop an auction of her pre-loved washable nappies as eBay authorities deem them too unhygenic to sell.
As a member of the keen-to-be-green community I had made my mind up that we would use washable nappies with [...]
I’ve been back in the office for a couple of weeks now that the children have started school and are there Mon-Fri until 3pm each day.
For the first couple of weeks I had quite a backlog of paperwork and spreadsheets to bring up to date but now am able to do everything I need to [...]
My lovely friend Bryony came over yesterday and sympathised with me about the huge number of fruit flies swarming around the kitchen as she had a similar experience last week. The children and I had returned from a long weekend away while Bealers was doing a long mountainous camping trip to find the plate of [...]
Out of respect for the emotions of one of my very lovely friends I’m not going to spend a lot of my time writing about our latest pregnancy but wanted to jot down my thoughts on how this pregnancy will be as thrifty as possible (in sharp comparison to when we were expecting the twins [...]
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 [...]
My mother-in-law gave me her copy of ‘You’ magazine at the weekend which I assume is the glossy supplement which accompanied her Sunday newspaper. I read it on the lonnnng journey back from Cornwall (6 hours when you’re towing a caravan at 50 miles an hour).
The first article caught my attention as it describes how [...]