Crawling babies are hard work especially at this time of year – they refuse to sit still and it’s too cold and wet to let them loose in the park like dogs. With the Easter holidays approaching and my garden full of snow I have put together a list of things to do in London […]
As a parent you quickly learn to interpret different screams – there’s the tired scream, the I would like some attention scream and then there’s the scream of your child in genuine pain. The one that turns your stomach. Thank God I have not had to hear that one very often from my daughter. But […]
Before I had my daughter I remember being quite worried about what was going to happen to my tits. For the benefit of any mums-to- be this is what I have learned from breastfeeding my two children. Let’s start with the good stuff –the really good news is that post baby boobs look awesome. Enjoy […]
One of the good things about the first few Mothering Sundays is that it’s basically your partner doing all the work. In later years the kids start having their own input that’s when the flowers and chocolates come in. As a basic rule any mother of very young children will be dealing with a lot […]
When I was pregnant I told my fella that the baby made me trump. Maybe it did. All I know is I was too damn tired to get up and go parp politely elsewhere. This got me thinking about the old wives tales and untruths surrounding women and pregnancy and how they are generally negative […]
I have a friend who creates beautiful hand made cards for birthdays her designs are always thoughtful and lovingly made and I have always been in awe of her creative skills. Another friend sends Christmas cards every year made by her children. I am not in awe of their creative skills in fact their cards […]
So pretty much everyone I’ve met since moving north has had the same reaction to us leaving London. Mainly that London is of course a terrible place to bring up a family and we were right to leave before the kids were eaten by urban foxes. At the risk of being thrown out of Yorkshire […]
We’ve recently uprooted from London and moved to Yorkshire to be nearer family, I think it’s important the children get to spend quality time with their grandparents and even more important for me to spend quality time reading Grazia. The plan came to me when I was on the toilet breastfeeding my newborn whilst my […]
