If anyone asked me, at the moment, I would say that this stage of parenting we are going through with a tweenager, rapidly running into actual teenaghood, is the hardest bit we have been through yet. I know that all stages of parenting can be hard and they all have their challenges and at the […]
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I don’t know about you, but I have a small list things around the house that need doing that I loathe. Everyone has a domestic chore they hate, don’t they? They are things that have to be done, in order to keep the house from either smelling/or becoming less than pleasant to live in. In […]
READ MORESome sad news from our pet’s corner of the Mad House of Cats & Babies. Our smallest furry friend, Scruffy the Hamster, died, last month. He was much loved, even if he was small, grumpy and had a tendency to be slightly smelly despite me cleaning his cage often. He was very comical in his […]
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In Flanders Fields, a man I never knew… In a corner of a quiet war graveyard, down a street in an inconspicuous little town in Belgium, with fields of corn on one side, and storehouses crowding out the horizon on the other, there’s a grave. It’s the grave of a man I never knew. Who […]
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Please do not tell my child to take their glasses off… This is a rant. Aimed at no doubt the thoughtless amongst us. My child wears glasses. She has inherited not only my short-sighted vision, but also astigmatism and a genetic eyelid condition that means that she will, for the rest of her life, either […]
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We are a consumer family. I know that. We rely on a lot of items of convenience, to get us through our daily lives. It’s something I half feel guilty about and half accept, simply because life for us is busy and crazy and I simply cannot sit down and stress over every little thing. […]
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Does anyone remember spirographs and using those plastic shapes to draw endless patterns in multicolours. Ok, so I am old, I know but that was a huge and fun part of my childdhood and kept me and my friends busy for hours trying to make the neatest and prettiest patterns. Remember making these? We thought […]
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*we were kindly sent some items to review, all opinions are our own* It’s that time of year. School aged children are going back to school, or are starting school. The summer holiday has ended and we gear up school runs and back to normal routine. As a mum of two children, I usually have […]
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It has been a long summer break, for us. Longer than normal, due to our school being rebuilt and giving us extra weeks at the beginning and end of the holidays. 8 weeks in total. In some ways it’s been lovely, but in other ways, it has been challenging. We have had lots of fun […]
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A family movie about a dog who goes through life trying to figure out his purpose. You will laugh and cry. I did. Dennis Quaid stars as the voice of the main character in the movie and we have a question and answer piece he did all about the movie and his role. Q: […]
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