Nice buns!
Everything I bake seems to look like boobs at the moment and I blame Fay Ripley (author of the brilliant What’s for Dinner?: Easy and delicious recipes for everyday cooking and Fay’s Family Food:...
View ArticleHob nobbing* (*self catering)
So, self catering with small children, eh? Eat what you want, when you want, in the comfort of your own room or out and about. Sure. Well, we’re back from our fortnight in Alykanas in Zante, a small...
View ArticleOh dear lord, is that the time?
Whoops. I knew this blogging lark would bite me on the bum. I think it’s been about two months since I’ve written a single word, maybe more. In my defence, I’ve moved house in that time, and the...
View ArticleFirst bloom
Just a little explanation. Not an apology, because that would assume a) it matters b) I could have done anything differently. I started this blog a year ago and for the last six months I’ve not been...
View ArticleThe time of our lives
We didn’t know it then but it was probably the last silly night we’d have in a long, long time. It started with a boat trip to Greenwich, where we visited the observatory and contemplated the Millenium...
View ArticleSenior moment #1
Driving home from the supermarket today I was musing about how much younger and energetic I feel these days. It’s been eight months since BUB.3 arrived and in that time not only have I shifted up from...
View ArticleWeight loss, it’s a thing.
Aside from rigorously following Slimming World for eight months, people ask me how I lost 3.5 stone (three of which I tell myself were each of the BUBs’ fault, half a stone was the biscuits’ fault, but...
View ArticleJust hanging out
I guess from looking at my Facebook photos, people might look at my life and think “It must be so cool getting to hang out with your kids all day.” Hanging out implies conversations that go like this:...
View ArticleKERBOOM cake
In the future, if I ever struggle to remember what it was like to have a three-year-old child, I will just look at a photo of the birthday cake I made BUB.2 for his fourth birthday. He had seen similar...
View ArticleWeight loss, it’s a thing.
Aside from rigorously following Slimming World for eight months, people ask me how I lost 3.5 stone (three of which I tell myself were each of the BUBs’ fault, half a stone was the biscuits’ fault, but...
View ArticleWeight loss, it’s a thing.
Aside from rigorously following Slimming World for eight months, people ask me how I lost 3.5 stone (three of which I tell myself were each of the BUBs’ fault, half a stone was the biscuits’ fault, but...
View ArticleBlue whale birthday cake
Last year I made BUB.2 a birthday cake that perfectly symbolised his temperament at four years old. This year, on his fifth birthday, my blue whale-loving boy deserved a birthday cake to symbolise how...
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