May Half Term 2025! I love the holidays, live for them really because I just can’t stand missing the children so much while they’re at school. I know that sounds nuts but this is me, I can’t be anyone else and after May half term this year I feel totally short changed. I had some teeth out just before, four of them in fact in readiness for Invisalign sorting out the gaps (one tooth had to come out due to […]
Summer Trinity Term 2025 – Part 1! This half term feels like it must be the quickest one in the whole year but I’ll probably say that next term end too. We came into it from Easter with some sunshine, we headed straight into Gram’s birthday, followed by Jimmy’s a week later and mixed in with sports and tournaments, dance shows, lessons, rehearsals, excellent parent’s evenings, play groups and fun with friends, we have arrived ready for a week of […]
Money Can’t Buy Happiness But… Money can’t buy happiness; we know that! It can’t buy you into, or out of, anything that would give you real happiness at any rate: Love, emotion, sadness, grief, stability of the mind, aggressions, addictions… It can’t pay for the existence, or removal of those things, and therefore, the statement is true. “Money can’t buy happiness.” But… It can buy you an ease of life which, in turn, can absolutely give a bit of happiness! […]
Dearest Jimmy – You Are Thirteen! Dearest Jimmy, You are thirteen – a teenager, wow! I am bowled over that 13 year’s have slipped by and you’re now a big strapping lad who plays rugby and cricket and absolutely throws his all in to every sporting endeavour always. Watching you on the rugby pitch, literally giving it your all despite being smaller than most of the other players, fills me with both pride and worry. It’s been a year since […]
Easter Holidays 2025! Here’s our best bits!
Wroxham Barns Easter Adventure 2025! At £12 (for anyone over the age of 3), this all inclusive ticket to the farm and park at Wroxham Barns is one of the best value family days out you’ll find! For your entry price you will be invited to enjoy all the regular fun on the farm, with feeding animals, grooming ponies and diving into the soft play, as well as unlimited rides (and smiles) in the fun park, which includes crazy golf. […]
Cricket/Grasshopper Costume – Home Made! It’s coming up to Raffie’s “mini beast day” at school. So, in half term, he, Posie and I created a Cricket costume for him to wear. The brief is basically “come as a bug” and seeing as all my children have an insect for a middle name, we had to go with Raffie’s for Raffie Rocco Cricket! We took an old Hello Fresh box and laid it out flay before drawing on the shape of […]
February Half Term 2025! February Half Term is oftena. Funny one isn’t it, while I welcome the time off to be together, the weather isn’t great and doesn’t make it feel inviting for lots of days out and being busy as is my usual wont. We’ve had a mix of being busy and out for the day with down time at home. I’m more inclined to let us settle into nothing much when it’s grey, cold and raining but I […]
Lent Term 2025 – Part 1! Christmas came and went in a flash and then we headed into the Lent term which felt like we had eons ahead of us before we’d reach half way through when we began it. Yet here we are… Half way through the Lent term, half way through the whole academic year in fact, and with brighter mornings and later evenings it’s not feeling so bad that we’ve ploughed like a steam train to get […]
