Our first holiday abroad AK (after kids) was a week in Tuscany when The Boy was 9 months old, and it was quite possibly our best holiday yet. We’d already fallen in love with the Italian city of Florence on a trip there for work, and spent a long weekend in Cagliari – the capital […]
Archives for March 2016
Family: The Boden Sale Is On And I Want To Buy Everything
Oh dear. Boden is having a mid-season sale. Anyone who knows me well, or who read my last post about Boden’s Florasaurus dinosaur dress, will know I have a bit of a thing for the British clothing brand’s bright, bold and slightly batty prints for kids. It’s why the only ad I’ve got on this […]
Family: Oh Jamie Oliver, What Have You Done?
Oh, Jamie Oliver, what have you done? You’ve only gone and quoted some scientific facts about breastfeeding that are already out there for all the world to see. How very dare you? You’ve assumed that – because you’re a human being – you can raise an issue that affects half of all the human beings […]
Family: On Leaving The House (A Poem)
When your day starts off wrong and you don’t even know Where the car keys have gone when you’re ready to go Your coffee’s gone cold and your hair looks like sh*t You can’t find a comb and the toddler’s got nits You forgot the packed lunch and the milk’s all run out He can’t […]
Travel: 6 Indoor Activities For Toddlers At Center Parcs
It feels like an age since I wrote about outdoor activities for toddlers at Center Parcs, so it’s high time I ticked off things to keep young children – that’s babies, toddlers and preschoolers – busy indoors. While I focussed on our stay at Center Parcs Whinfell Forest last time, I’ve covered several different villages […]
Family: What Did You Do Today? Your Response, Vs Your Toddler’s…
Ever wondered how your account of your day compares to your toddler’s? Wonder no more… _______ What you say: My toddler is really interested in farm animals – particularly the porcine variety – so today we watched a special programme about them. It also touched on family values and sibling relationships, so it was really […]