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Keep Up With The Jones Family Instagram or Facebook followers will have noticed yesterday the solving of one of our most frustrating garden mysteries ever. We finally found the gastropod version of the Rock of Gibraltar. For weeks we’ve searched for the plump, guilty molluscs who were clearly feasting nightly on our green seedlings by the glow…
As it’s Thursday, we’re scraping the bottom of the treats drawer for the week and so we decided today would be a good day to make some scones for Dadda to come home from work and enjoy with us. As it turned out, Dadda arrived home early from work with a nasty sickness bug and…
We are decluttering at a savage rate here. We’ve outgrown our house and are bursting at the seams, trying to keep five people in a two bedroomed house. It’s time to move. So whilst we’re in lockdown and also whilst it’s not exactly the weather to be out and about having as much fun as…
It’s JULY. Household budgeting time. Half the year has gone, passed me by and I’m thinking that maybe I just slept from February to now. I vaguely recall promising myself that I would be more organised as a New Year’s resolution – meal plan, budget,… you know how it goes at ten minutes to midnight….
My granny always used to say that you could judge a man by his shoes. On Saturday mornings as a child, I remember her making a list of errands to run – greengrocers, butchers, and occasionally the cobblers to have her shoes re-heeled or fixed. I’m 39 – and I’ve never been to a…
This evening I might just be winning the worst parent award. Getting Jensen’s clothes ready for school tomorrow, I noticed his coat in the kitchen and was rifling through his pockets to empty the sticks and stones he collected after his birthday scoot at the Common, when I noticed how thin his coat felt compared…