and other things. It's been a pretty tough week. But there has been brightness and joy too. I was really touched by how many people...

National Trust Adbentures. Sally used not to be able to pronounce v's - some of the slightly askew pronunciations have stuck. Saturday...

Date night painting things. I have an exciting new arrangement with one of my NCT friends. I watch her kids every couple of weeks so her...

Adventure to the Green Retreats showroom, and a quick trip to Waddesdon Manor Husband works from home. Well at least on the days that...

I'm starting to wish this had more to do with sleeping. Our garden has long been unloved. Well, perhaps not unloved as the kids...

Sometimes you need to do a bit of crafting. The children are at nursery today - its realistically the only day I'm going to get this week...

Colourful crafting. Seasonal events are starting to be a bit more fun now that Sally has an inkling of what is all about, but without too...

Happy bum post arrived. Another eco parcel was waiting for me and Sally when we got back from swimming this morning. It was especially...

I love having the new pictures up, but I want more! It's actually really hard to take pictures of pictures in gloomy March. Our light...

THE FANTASTIC FLYING JOURNEY AND THE FANTASTIC DINOSAUR ADVENTURE Some of the things you remember from your childhood aren't quite as...

Mother's Day. This weekend was really lovely. It was busy, and there was quite a lot of charging about, but there were also some very...

I'm a day late, but then so was the parcel. Women and books - what more could you want? I love this series. We are trying to raise a...

Husband has not been impressed with how many times he's had to answer the door this week... but then he does say he doesn't have enough...

Trip to London to the Natural History Museum An adventure! Or a series of adventures really. First there was the train - in a strange...

(WITH ADDED BACON) I haven't made this in a little while. It used to be a staple, cooked every week or so, but it fell off the radar -...

Something miraculous happened. I discovered that Sally was actully helping me prepare dinner! Pip used to hate the noise the blender...

Its been a funny sort of day. The snow came down softly over night so I woke up to the excited shouts of Sally charging through the house...

A little bit of colour for the kids' favourite Aunty! Life has been a bit chaotic of late. There was this nice lull at half term and...

Pictures painted just two days ago and already on the wall? Wonders will never cease! I think it all looks nice and really brightens up a...

Time to start putting some pictures up in this house! Step one: mask out some shapes on the paper - Sally helped choose where they needed...