Robyn
TO BUMSHUFFLE OR TO CRAWL?
A critical question for an almost one year old. The answer in this instance is to shuffle her wee butt around with daily increasing...
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Robyn
- Aug 4, 2019
- 3 min
REMEMBER THE MOMENTS
Because there were some beautiful ones. But holidays with three small children, they're hard work. This was not a holiday that's going...
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Robyn
- Jun 21, 2019
- 3 min
THE FAMILY BASKET
Time to put the moses basket back in the loft. I wonder when it'll come down again. When I was pregnant with Sally, mum asked if I...
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Robyn
- Jun 5, 2019
- 4 min
BABY GEEK
That would be me - not the actual baby. Although this is a picture of the baby being geeked which I know is off topic, but she's so...
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Robyn
- May 2, 2019
- 3 min
BATTLES WITH PLASTIC: NEW STUFF
I got some goodies from Klean Kanteen Pip needed a drinks bottle and the Lifeventure flask I bought about five years ago has lost part of...
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Robyn
- Apr 27, 2019
- 3 min
ITS REAL NAPPY WEEK!
What good timing with all the climate change activism happening at the moment. I've written about why I like cloth nappies a couple of...
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Robyn
- Apr 18, 2019
- 3 min
TWO POUND ADVENTURES
Woodland trails at Basildon Park. Three pounds, a map for a route around a field and a Cadbury's Easter Egg at the end? No thank you. ...
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Robyn
- Apr 17, 2019
- 2 min
EASTER BISCUITING
Seriously, how long are these holidays? These are some of the things that happened when I decided to make biscuits with the small people....
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Robyn
- Apr 12, 2019
- 5 min
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TOES
This morning Sally asked me if I would paint her toe nails, I had no particular reason to refuse and it seemed a suitable carrot to hold...
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Robyn
- Apr 6, 2019
- 4 min
BATTLES WITH PLASTIC
CHEEKY WIPES - These ought to be mandated for all new parents. These arrived in the post this week. They are the best. They are also...
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Robyn
- Apr 2, 2019
- 4 min
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
On Wednesday morning this week, Pip pulled one of his socks off and told me he had crayon on his toes. He was half right, I suspected it...
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Robyn
- Mar 23, 2019
- 4 min
BAKING MADNESS
No, the other way around. Baking to keep me sane. I fall in and out of being a regular baker. I've been rather better at it over the...
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Robyn
- Mar 22, 2019
- 3 min
A FORTNIGHT OF FIRST
And a few lasts too. This having a new number three baby is an odd thing. It wasn't until I had Pip that I realised that I really liked...
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Robyn
- Mar 6, 2019
- 3 min
A NEW NORMAL
As I write this wind is lashing at the window and the sky is the gloomiest early March can muster. This time last week, it was the last...
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Robyn
- Feb 16, 2019
- 3 min
TO MY HUSBAND
Sometimes I forget to tell my husband how excellent he is. Well, actually, I tell him quite a lot, but to draw a comparison from the last...
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Robyn
- Feb 1, 2019
- 3 min
BEST LAID PLANS AND ALL THAT JAZZ.
Last week I was trying to do to much. Now I'm supposed to be doing nothing at all. You think you know what you're doing. You think...
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Robyn
- Jan 20, 2019
- 4 min
BIG BOY BED AND MUSICAL FURNITURE
New beds have arrived and I'm starting to freak out about the arrival of baby three. Things always happen in an awkward order and there...
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Robyn
- Dec 30, 2018
- 3 min
DEAR MELISSA AND DOUG
We love you; why don't you like us enough to give us lids? I really don't get it. The boxes are nice and wooden and contain all manner...
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Robyn
- Dec 29, 2018
- 3 min
LESS NASTY IN THE BATHROOM - THE CHILDREN
It doesn't get me any points in the battles against plastic, but it is a tick in the smaller, nicer companies column - Childs Farm sell...
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Robyn
- Dec 21, 2018
- 4 min
A COUPLE OF BOOKS
Penelope Lively - again - How it all Began & Roald Dahl's My Uncle Oswald Sometimes there are days that are just a bit less hard. ...
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