A bit of a shock today. I was having a cappuccino with the lovely S after our usual gruelling twice-round-the-park training schedule when we chanced upon a fellow mummy who shall be known only as D. Talk moved, as it inexorably does, to the question of work. Apparently there are those who consider that the …
I must admit I puzzled over the Census. What on earth do you do if you don’t have a traditional nuclear family? We have two adults who are permanent residents, and a floating population of four children, with two separate other homes. So sometimes we are six, sometimes four. Sometimes we are two. And often any …
We have had a lot of concern about the move. Concern over our cat, that is. For some reason, people assume that humans deal reasonably well with stress. They even believe that I can deal with it, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back this assumption up. But the cat? Concerned voices, whispers, sympathy, even …
I sometimes write for the great parents’ website Ready for Ten and a recent post on sleepovers got some comments suggesting a lot of people feel under pressure to have children round for the night when they aren’t really that keen on the idea. It struck me that even the simple idea of the sleepover …
I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to ignore the word ‘chocolate’ in the subject line of an email. So much so that I’m very much afraid that I’ll ignore a pile of urgent missives from friends and family in order to zoom straight to that tempting word. Of course, this could …
This review time is looooooong overdue so massive apologies to everyone who’s sent me lovely things to test and then been drumming their fingers while I move, lose my washing, and blog endlessly about it instead of getting down to some constructive work ….. Well, the wait is finally over. I haven’t found my washing, obviously, but I …
We thought we were buying rather a grown-up house. But, in the last week, I realise we’ve actually taken up residence in a commune. As I’m writing, there are two radios blaring out – one is Five Live, with the latest cricket scores, and another is an Asian station I’ve already grown quite fond of, …
Sponsored post On my new route to the school after moving house, there’s a Co-op store. Already, it’s been a godsend. There’s a clothes recycling bin for all the stuff I paid to have moved and which there is now no room for. There are glass recycling facilities for all the extra bottles of Chardonnay …
So the move is finally over. It’s fair to say that there have been a few teething troubles. I went into the garage yesterday armed with many bin bags, to tackle the freezer. I was pretty sure its contents, having been left a-mouldering for the best part of a fortnight, would be quite capable of …
Ten things not to do while moving house 1. Lose track of the wet washing that was in the washing machine 2. Ask the movers to store 60 boxes of kitchen stuff in the garage until the kitchen is constructed some time in May. Then realise that somewhere in those boxes is the wet washing. …