It’s the season for colds and coughs. The weather has changed and germs abound. Winter is coming and so are those nasty lurgies that send us rushing to get tissues and throat sweets. I hate getting colds. You aren’t quite sick enough to take time off work, but you feel pretty much like death warmed […]
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It’s not often that something makes me feel REALLY old, but we recently tried out the fabulous animation kit and software from Zu3D and when I see what we can now create with technology, and remember back to my own days at school with a very old computer and a Daisy Wheel printer (who remembers […]
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You may have read our sad news about the death of our beloved hamster Scruffy, over the summer. We were gutted to loose him and we missed him a lot. The children kept nagging me to get another hamster, but I wasn’t ready. He was mine, and I was very fond of him, and wasn’t […]
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Ah, school lunchboxes, and what to put in them? Anyone else struggle sometimes to fill them with food you know your kids will eat but that is also good for them, and that they will enjoy? My children both like fruit, I jokingly call my small boy a fruit bat, for his well known ability […]
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I have always said that Mum instinct is very rarely wrong and that if you feel that something is amiss with your kid(s) you should act on it. I have been proven right before, twice, with health issues with my children, once when I put my foot down and pushed past a whole host of […]
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We are delighted to be able to join up with the team at Ora to bring rather a fab giveaway to our readers. We have shared about Ora before, and how much we love it, and they have a fab gift for one lucky reader on our blog to win. We have a pack of […]
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I don’t drive. I choose not to. I don’t like it and my anxiety makes driving incredibly stressful and not worth the effort. I don’t currently have a valid licence to drive. So I use public transport daily for journeys to work and activities with the kids and if I have to go anywhere, without […]
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I often make jokes about vitamin D and getting my daily dose when the sun decides to shine here in London. However, I do also take vitamin D consumption and how much we need seriously because actually getting enough into our bodies isn’t as easy as it seems. Vitamin D is really important and the […]
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So last week I joined up with lots of other bloggers to share a moment each day with a theme sent to us by Families Online. Every Moment Counts was such a lovely way to look at the theme for each day and share a photo and some thoughts on that image. I had a […]
READ MORESo, of course, I am the perfect mother. My house is immaculate, and I have life incredibly well organised, my children only ever eat organic, fully home made foods, never any junk food or treats, they do all their homework, we are at the school gate on time, they cheerfully help with chores, sleep beautifully, […]
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