Category: Family Life
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 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 …
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 …
This is a collaborative post Days spent indoors don’t have to be boring, there are lots of activities you can do to keep yourself and children entertained Having spend the last few weeks at home we have found lots of different ways to while away the hours together. We never …
I have two boys, the eldest being almost nine and with almost 5 years between them I have learnt a few things about savvy shopping when it comes to their clothes. First of all they were born in different seasons. This was fine for baby grows but it soon became …
I have now spent a grand total of ten weeks “behind the door” due to self isolation I’m shielding because I am on immunosuppressants for Crohn’s disease and haven’t been outside my front door for ten weeks. Unless you count two trips to the hospital for immunosuppressant therapy, putting the …
This post was originally written in May 2017 I’m back from another long day in A&E because of this bastard disease, Crohn’s. I’ve previously written here about my diagnosis and first operations (have a gander, it’s thrilling – intensive care and everything). Cutting a very long story short since August 2013 …
