I love taking photos. I must take 100 a week, easy. Before Boo it was Rosie the dog who was my favourite subject. Boo has taken over Rosie I’m afraid. When she was first born, Hubster warned me that our daughter was going to think her mummy’s face had a camera or a phone attached…
There’s one thing all mums are guilty of. Maybe dads too, and that is, not really listening to advice. We’re parents for goodness sake. So you gave your baby brandy to sooth teething 60 years ago? Things have changed. The other mothers who weaned their babies on rusks before six months despite the gluten allergy…
Known as the “silent killer”, high blood pressure rarely has obvious symptoms. According to the NHS, around 30 per cent of people in England have high blood pressure but many don’t know it. If left untreated, high blood pressure increases your risk of a heart attack or stroke. The only way of knowing there is a…
Before I was married or had children, I used to snigger at people who had large photos of themselves adorning the walls of their house. I suppose not so much their kids, but the cheesey wedding pics that took up a whole wall of their living room. Roll on a few years and, with a…
So we’re coming to the end of Fairtrade Fortnight. I celebrated the start of the two weeks with Fairtrade wine and I am seeing it out with cake-it’s a hard life. I am still on my diet so I will be just looking at said cake and enjoying watching other people eat it having a…
So two weeks on from our delivery of ex-commercial hens, we’re suffering a bit of an egg-gate situation. I lovingly painted signs eggs for sale, created an egg-cellent display in which to sell my eggs and even made loyalty cards-but nine boxes of eggs and get your tenth “absolutely free.” I was really happy. Pancake…
Traditionally, Lent is a period of abstinence, penance and self-denial to bring Christians closer to God. It emulates Jesus’ 40 days spent in the wilderness and prepares believers for Easter. Not chocolate eggs, but new life and Resurrection. I have decided to therefore use Lent as my own little episode of self-denial and abstinence. After…
I love make up. Always have. When I was about four, my mum gave me a little bag with a clasp (how grown up did I feel?) with some of her own make up to play with because I loved it so much. As a punishment one time when I was bad, she threw said…
Our family LOVES pancakes. We don’t need much of an excuse. Sometimes we have them Christmas Day for breakfast as a treat. Other times, we can see the pancake episode of Peppa Pig and use that as an excuse to have them for brunch, Shrove Tuesday is another matter. Everyone is eating them and talking about…
The weather this week has been beautiful here at the farm. Cold and crisp but mostly dry with lots of sunshine-does that make me sound like a weather presenter? Anyway, dry weather means only one thing down on the farm. Outdoor play. I feel like we’ve had a very productive week. Mummy painted bunting on…