Ingredients to make 2 glasses ½ pint or so of your milk of choice (cow’s milk here) ½ tsp cacao nibs Handful dried dates 3tbsp fruit spread (I used Meridian Cherries and Berries) Handful of ice Method Tip all the… Read more ›
This man holds his little girl while she goes to sleep in his arms every single night, sometimes with tears from her, sometimes not, sometimes with tears from him. He then waits the half an hour it takes for her to go into a deep sleep and carries her upstairs into her little bed next to ours. Read more ›
Every child goes through that stage where they are still a baby yet not quite. Somewhere between three and four years old you realise one day that your baby is no longer a baby. They’re something else, a little sapling,… Read more ›
Mr T has just come back from a fortnight away on the other side of the World on business. My view right now: Some parents need lots of “me time”, I don’t, my time with my kids feels so precious… Read more ›
I woke up in the early morning of Friday 24th June and picked up my phone to see what the country had decided, were we to be in or out of the European Union. It was not the result I’d… Read more ›
It’s not a big garden but we certainly pack a lot in! Here’s a little snapshot of some of the things growing in our little garden today. As well as the climbing frame/swing/slide combo, the chicken enclosure, the wheelchair platform… Read more ›
I’m in my late thirties and I haven’t intentionally ran since I was at school and I wasn’t a big fan then! In fact, I’m not a huge fan of exercise at all 😉 But, I’ve started hearing myself breathing/panting… Read more ›
I love a family selfie, capturing a moment in time when we’re all together. Most of my profile pictures on social media are selfies of me with our children. It’s funny to look bacl on profile pictures, it seems my… Read more ›
We took our Bell out her first outing just down the road to Inwood Camping in Basingstoke. Inwood is a Camping Unplugged site and Mr T declared it his best camping trip ever! We will definitely try some of the other… Read more ›
My Daddy passed away at the start of the month, he was a great poet, he was forever coming up with silly songs when we were kids, adding a rude ending then killing himself laughing while my Mum tried not… Read more ›