Another year older, another year wiser?

No dear reader, it isn’t my birthday quite yet, but rather the start of another #Blogtober18 – a blogging challenge of a post per day for 31 days either following prompts or choosing your own theme. In last year’s opening post – On (not)...

Seven things I hate about school

Before I start on this rant I want to make it clear that I’m obviously grateful for the universal public education offered in this country and that when I was originally bemoaning not getting the school of our choice for our eldest seeing Malala joining Twitter...

A month to be aware of

October 2017 is a very significant month which has lots of claims to fame. Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Stoptober and Black History Month, it contains The Big Draw, World Space Week, Wool Week, National Knitting Week, British Egg Week, National Curry Week, Chocolate...

Planes, pains and automobiles

Today’s #Blogtober17 prompt “car” reminded me of a recent fun family day out despite not all going entirely to plan… With the weather forecast against us and a desire to find some new indoor attractions to keep the mini ones busy (that...

The privilege of baby cuddles

At one of the minis many weekend daytime soirees another mum who had stolen Faith for a cuddle spoke of the privilege of holding a baby. Obviously as the mum of the baby she was holding at the time I was definitely in agreement but she’s right in general too,...

On (not) keeping it simple

One of the best pieces of advice that I was given in Faith’s early days when requesting words of wisdom from those who’d had more experience of coping with three young children was to “keep it simple”. The mum’s words seemed entirely...