I don’t know about you but when it comes to Christmas, I’m all enthusiasm and effort with little success. Nothing seems to go the way I has thought about it in my head (it’s a minefield in Emma’s world, I’m telling you). My tree ends up with lights at one side and not the other. I have…
I have had to admit something to myself this week and it hurt. Fashion wellies do not mix with farms. We have lived at the farm for just over a year now and in that time I have been through four pairs of the fashionable type. Oh they were lovely. Pink glitter, polka dot, even…
Who am I? Who are any of us? Have you ever sat down and thought about identity? How you identify yourself or how others identify you. Identity is more than a name and just think, to many people you have an identity without even having a name. From the people you see every day on…
I don’t know if it is a gift. I am sure my husband would say it is a weakness. I can’t help falling for animals. Yes we live on a farm and despite once being vegetarian, I do accept that the business we are in is killing for food and I accept that. It puts…
We lived in a terraced house when my daughter was born. We did buy a baby monitor but to be honest, we didn’t really need one. When she was really young, she was with us anyway and when she was older, our dog would run up and down stairs when she awoke. We moved to…
I am uneasy with Halloween. I don’t mind the dressing up per-say but it’s the trick or treating which I am the most uneasy with. You see, when I was growing up, my parents would never let me go trick or treating and, at the time, I was gutted. Why couldn’t I go and get…
It’s half term where I live and while teachers may be breathing a sigh of relief, parents everywhere are on the verge of tearing their hair out. Childcare, activities, money for activites; are all on the agenda of parents with children at school. But what about parents of preschool children? Every week is half…
(The amazing Katie) Today I have come up with a new manta. You know how some Christians ask What Would Jesus Do? Well I’m trying What Would Katie Do? You see my cousin in America is also a farmer’s wife. She has two children and a much larger farm yet has…
So today I had my weekly under the couch purge. It is always an eye opener. In the old house we had laminate floor and I naively thought carpet at the farm would solve the under-the-couch magnetism. I was wrong. I have no idea how things get there. I never see them going under but…
Calories 1500 (tying to be good), alcohol units 2 (needed them after rollercoaster emotions of finishing Mad About the Boy, Twitter followers 409, husband 1 (just, after reading book for so long) daughter 1 (but must admit have had a little read while she watched CBeebies). Warm Fuzzy feeling and sadness at finishing said book,…