‘How do I get my baby to sleep when we go on holiday?’ It’s a question I found myself frantically typing into Google before our first overseas trip with our 9-month-old baby boy. Fast-forward four years and that baby boy is at school, now has a younger sister, and has been on more holidays than I did in […]
Archives for September 2017
Travel: The best bath of my life at Ellenborough Park Hotel, Cheltenham
‘This place is bigger than our front room. And our kitchen. And our upstairs. Put together.’ Those were the first words to come out of my mouth as I walked into our suite at Ellenborough Park hotel in Cheltenham. Apart from an unintelligible combination of ‘woooooah’ and ‘ohmywordwouldyoulookatthisplace’, of course. And it was no understatement, […]
Family: Tomorrow you start in Reception (a poem for my son)
Tomorrow you start in Reception, The calendar tells me it’s so. It’s been scribbled in red for months now, But wait: where did that time go? I bought your uniform, your shoes, your PE kit; Spent hours labelling all of your clothes. We’ve tried them all on in the front room, But tell me: where […]