Dearest Posie – You Are Five! Dearest Posie, You are five years old, and in what has to be the fastest to five ever, you’re somehow no longer a baby but a little school girl instead. Always the baby of the family though, as you tell me yourself often – I think it’s a position in the pack you love, and why wouldn’t you? Absolutely everyone adoring you and at your disposal to do whatever you need them to, we […]
Make it Easier in 2026! I have four children. And as David is told in the film “Love Actually”, eight really is a lot of legs. It’s a lot of shoes on the end of those legs and lots of coats too. Clothing in general actually, if I don’t get at least two loads of washing on every single day then I am positively doomed. And with those eight legs, shoes, coats and clothes comes all the “stuff” belonging to […]
Christmas Holidays 2025! It seemed to take ages to get here and then… In a flash… Gone! I love them being home for the school holidays and Christmas is that little bit extra special, it felt like it was going to be a long one this year too but of course, it felt like it wasn’t. We had much to celebrate, as always, with the run up and us having got together on Christmas Eve 25 years ago, then the […]
Dearest Florence – You Are Sixteen! Dearest Florence, Sixteen! How?! How has it been sixteen year’s since you were born?! That feels impossible. Both because I can’t remember, and couldn’t right away, what it was to not have you, but also, because it was just so close, it can’t possibly have been enough time to grow a sixteen year old?! You are just the same now as you always have been, even then on that first day, in those first […]
Autumn/Michelmas Term 2025! The first term of the year is done and as we head into the Christmas holidays it feels so strange that Posie has had her first full term at school already, and that Florence i about to begin serious GCSE stuff when we go back! Here’s our pictures from the first term of the academic year!
Dearest Raffie, Now You Are Eight! Dearest Raffie, Our most wonderfully gorgeous and smiley eight year old, wow! How did that happen?! It feels like not so long ago we were battling to get you into the world with days of labour, forceps and then, finally, a C-Section delivery which saw me only hold you for a few seconds before they whisked you away and I asked Daddy to go and be with you. I remember seeing your face and […]
The Start Of The Autum/Michelmas Term 2025! As always, never happy to see the end of the summer holidays and send my children back to school but this year hurts a bit more than any other. It’s not just that they’re going back, it’s that Posie is starting and for the first time there won’t be any more pre-school days in my house. I’ve loved being a pre-school Mummy and ending that chapter, this end of an era, well… It […]
Summer Holidays 2025 – Week 6! And then it was over… The last week of the holidays was spent not exactly as I’d have planned, we had sickness bugs and colds and did very little but despite the slowness, we still had fun. Last meet ups with friends, lots of trips to McDonalds (three in total and I’m not even sorry), and park trips in the rain. Sad to be home from our Menorca holiday and sad that this was […]
Summer Holidays 2025 – Week 5! What a week! Marred only by the small fact we had to actually leave Menorca and come home (sob)! We enjoyed most of it on holiday and having the best time ever. Our hotel was so much fun for the children, with such lovely areas to sit and be quiet as well and the beach, which the hotel is basically ON, was just the best. Oh how we will miss the eating, drinking, being […]
Summer Holidays 2025 – Week 4! Well, a mammoth day getting ready, finishing up worky projects and getting the house in a suitable state to receive my friend coming in to feed the cat (as well as all the packing) and we were off to Menorca for our first abroad family holiday in 3 years! And boy were we glad to get on that plane – Eating, drinking, being merry, sand, sun and fun!
