Words for Wednesday…


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One of the perks of staying at Riverside Lifestyle last month was that we were all catered for by The Little Kitchen Company. For £40 per head, we enjoyed a tasty three course meal without shopping, preparing, cooking or cleaning up after ourselves, in the comfort of our own accommodation. It was bliss. I only…
Love cheese? Welcome to the club. Yet I still find it incredible that I only began to eat cheese when I met my husband. Before then, besides squeezy spread at law school, I just wasn’t a fan. These days, I’m not sure I go a day without eating it – and we were delighted when…
Happy New Year, everyone! I’m thinking of ten resolutions [so I have a shot at seeing one through] and feeling yucky thanks to the Christmas bugs we’ve all carried. Our wish is for health and happiness this year as a family – and on a personal note I took part in Eli Coach Daddy’s six…
These should have been nothing more than a handful of conker-hunting photos to capture Lyoto’s first real independent conker foraging expedition. They would have been so sweet to look back on next year and see how much we’ve changed. They could have been just that. But they weren’t. They aren’t. And despite how much I…
Bum bounce. Bum bounce. BUMMMM BOUNCCCCCCCCE! I hear these words at least seven or eight times an hour as Hero pleads with me to join him on the trampoline in the back garden. Let’s forget that my body, post three huge baby boys, is hardly trampoline-ready, or that the neighbours can see me each time…
Remember I was complaining about my house and wanting a blank canvas? Well, scrap that. I fell in love with some wallpaper recently that made me forget all of my dreams of a whitewashed way of life, and now I’m completely hooked. It’s blue, metallic and covered in little birds – and I’m quite besotted…