Category: Family Life
We have been given a subscription to Mindscreen – all opinions are ours. These blogs will chart our progress. We have not yet finished the course, I will be posting as we go along. As a child I wasn’t particularly confident, my self esteem wasn’t great and I fear I …
Includes items gifted for this post Halloween is going to be a bit different this year but it doesn’t mean it can’t be fun spending it at home Halloween before children was a very different affair, there would be costumes and alcohol, lots and lots of alcohol. Having children has …
This is a collaborative post Winter is coming! The nights are drawing in, the leaves are changing colour and falling from the trees and we are already thinking ahead to snow! Things will be different this year. We might not be about to pop over to France for our ski …
This is a collaborative post Admit it, we all want to be the cool friend or relative when it comes to buying presents for kids I know I used to really feel the pressure to buy something for my godson (he’s now in his late 20s and won’t be my …
Post originally written in July 2016, updated September 2020 following the Guardian article Misogyny should become a hate crime in England and Wales There was an article in the local rag (Yes, Kent Online, I’m looking at you) about a woman who had complained to a train company about workmen …
This post contains gifted items and affiliate links If you are anything like us you are currently hurriedly putting together your children’s back to school essentials Now, I am of a view that if it still works or fits it can be used again, in fact Little L (4) starts …
This is a collaborative post with Safe + Sound – all words and pictures are my own When I was very young (much younger than I am now, obvs) I had a scab on my forehead. I can’t remember how I got it but I do remember picking it on …
I have a confession to make, I used to be a grammar Nazi I know this will come as a complete surprise to anyone who has read at least one of my posts as they are likely littered with errors. You know what? Who fucking cares about grammar? I can …
This is a collaborative post I often beat myself up that my children haven’t been on many holidays. Then I remember that, actually Little L spent his second birthday in Paris… As regular readers will know Monsieur Incidental is French, his family all still live in France so most of …
I’m feeling a bit sad. I usually try to be upbeat but I am just plain sad about this. Little L had his last day at preschool on Friday, apart from it wasn’t his last day. He last went in to preschool on 13th March as we took both children …
