Favourite children’s books
N obviously takes after me in his love of books (plus of course being a typical toddler who’s sucking up all the information in them!). We tend to have to read quite a few before bedtime, although sometimes he’s quite…
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N obviously takes after me in his love of books (plus of course being a typical toddler who’s sucking up all the information in them!). We tend to have to read quite a few before bedtime, although sometimes he’s quite…

Ok, so I got a bit waylaid yesterday in doing my 2012 review as we had a longer than planned car shopping/research session (boy, are some car salesman totally missing working out what a customer is actually asking!), a cheesecake…
There’s been a lot of talk recently about different types of mums and their impact on their children as they grow up. I’d read an article in the latest Mother & Baby magazine about laid back mums having more independent…
The run up seems so long for Christmas (then of course it gets closed and seems to then rush by), and then it’s over in a day. If you’re lucky, you manage to drag it out a bit further. The…
Today we went to one of the local Christingle services. I was a little worried as I wasn’t sure how N would behave in the church having not been in one since he was christened. I was hoping he’d enjoy…
Whoop. Very exciting. Finally our Christmas tree has been brought down from the roof; I spend yesterday evening putting it up and decorating it. I have a purple and silver theme and have bought new items over the years. I…
So with only a week to go, I finally managed to find out that we are having Christmas at home. Now, we are always at the farm or around just because the men need to do the feeding in the…
I spotted this tag on another blog (Something about Sofia) and thought I’d take part, because how can you not take part in a Christmas tag? Q. What’s your favourite Christmas movie? The Snowman is the film I just can’t…
Last week I had a couple of days out of the office and away from home on a European departmental work conference. It was meant to be 2 overnights in Barcelona but was changed to be local to our work. …
Well, I never knew how much conjunctivitis would hurt, but I hate it turn up in one eye during a meeting at work. I just thought it was dry eye to begin with, but then it felt like it swelled,…

Finger’s crossed I’m not jinxing it, but we had a successful swimming session yesterday. Of course, it was the last lesson before we finished; I cancelled as things seemed to still be getting worse rather than over the wobbles which…