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...

Wax wraps seem like a great idea, but before using any nice fabric I figured a brief test was in order. This was probably a sensible move...

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...

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

It is probably irreverant to thank heaven for the break when it is centrered around celebrating the rather troubling end and reappearance...

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...

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...

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...

I expect this is going to sound snobby... I needed an antidote to the relentless and somewhat nonsensical carnage of the last of the 5th...

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...

And I finally got to try out my new yoga mat! For one reason or another we haven't had yoga for a few weeks. In the Autumn term I...

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...