Dearest Jimmy – You Are Fourteen! Dearest Jimmy, You are fourteen years old and boy, you’re a lovely one! Fourteen years of the cheekiest, silliest, smartest, funniest, most loveable and talented puppy dog that you are and it barely seems possible that it’s been that long si ce you arrived, like a little super hero with your fist up (and back to back just to be a little bit awkward as always) in the living room just after I’d watched […]
Easter Holidays 2026 – Week 2 (and 3)! After the indulgences of the Easter weekend we rolled into week 2 (and 3, because the little two had an extra day and the big kids had a whole extra week) with plans for more of everything! More days out, more chocolate, more fun with friends and family… We had a couple of days in London staying at a Premier Inn for most of us while Florence stayed with her London besties. […]
Easter Holidays 2026 – Week 2! Week one of the holidays was spent trying to be slow but failing (happily) into days out, seeing friends, food, London, Theatre trips, cinema visits, cooking and then the big Easter weekend which if I’m honest, I probably did go over the top on with the chocolates and presents but you know what?! They are only little once right and I love it! We all had mega fun and now onto week two!
Spring/Lent Term 2026! Christmas to Easter in a nano second! Filled with football, parties, performances, mock exams, rugby, injury, recovery, fun, friends, family, Valentine’s Day, World Book Day, Mother’s Day, Red Nose Day, birthday, food, being poorly with bugs, getting well and fighting those germs, a first residential and so much more! Here’s our Spring/Lent term 2026!
February Half Term 2026! Well, what can I say about February half term… We solved a problem like Maria, which caused a bit of upset before it caused a bit of anger but with it some relief (and refund which would never have been forthcoming had I done things the way I initially intended) so all is well that ends well! We went out of school and straight into a show which unfortunately, Posie was poorly on the final performance, […]
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!
