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
- 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
- Feb 5, 2019
- 2 min
THANK YOU!
An really sweet and unexpected parcel. I came across a box when I stumbled in through the door this afternoon. The afternoon had been...
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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
- Dec 27, 2018
- 7 min
HITS AND MISSES OF A PLASTIC LIGHT BATHROOM
Great ideas don't always work out - this is what I have found out recently 1. LUSH Shampoo and conditioner bars - obvious right? Well......
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Robyn
- Dec 1, 2018
- 4 min
BATTLES WITH PLASTIC? THEY'RE A DODDLE
After last week's post, I looked around my kitchen and figured it was time to make some more changes. I've made a sort of pre-New Year's...
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Robyn
- Oct 18, 2018
- 3 min
DRESSAGE AND A TIMELINE
Ok, so it' s been a while since I wrote anything. Term started and I found myself mostly asleep on the sofa in the evening - but more...
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Robyn
- Jun 20, 2018
- 5 min
SUPER BUSY WEEKEND
Lots of being sociable and community spirited. Saturday was the street party - we've had one each summer for the last four years. It was...
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Robyn
- Jun 9, 2018
- 3 min
TEA AGAIN
This is the second of the promised tea posts. It is about my recently developed infatuation for Pukka teas. Look at all the pretty boxes...
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Robyn
- Jun 5, 2018
- 4 min
NAPPIES & NAPPIES
This is what I think of Kit & Kin The normal order of the day here is cloth. Happy fluffy enormous cloth bum. At least at the daytime,...
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Robyn
- May 26, 2018
- 4 min
ONE HUNDRED BOOKS
Another list? A list of a 100 brilliant books by women has just been published for this year's Hay Literary Festival. I had a look...
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Robyn
- May 6, 2018
- 3 min
TEA
Specifically the leaves. There are actually two posts I need to write about tea. This one is about leaves, the other one is about how I...
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Robyn
- Mar 26, 2018
- 3 min
TO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND
Blake and Huxley. "To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity...
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Robyn
- Mar 24, 2018
- 1 min
WE GIVE A CRAP
Happy bum post arrived. Another eco parcel was waiting for me and Sally when we got back from swimming this morning. It was especially...
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Robyn
- Mar 23, 2018
- 3 min
EASTER HOLIDAYS
It is probably irreverant to thank heaven for the break when it is centrered around celebrating the rather troubling end and reappearance...
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Robyn
- Mar 18, 2018
- 2 min
BEAUTIFUL (FANTASTIC) BOOKS
THE FANTASTIC FLYING JOURNEY AND THE FANTASTIC DINOSAUR ADVENTURE Some of the things you remember from your childhood aren't quite as...
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Robyn
- Mar 14, 2018
- 4 min
MINOTAUR
SO, SO EXCITED. The play is cast, first read through was today. It is just fab hearing all the words spoken outside of my own head. And...
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Robyn
- Mar 10, 2018
- 2 min
INTERNATIONALLY AWESOME WOMEN
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...
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Robyn
- Feb 13, 2018
- 2 min
FROM AESCHYLUS TO ATWOOD
A note on the title of my blog. By training I'm a Classicist, but by day I mostly teach (and let's be honest, read) English - so these...
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