Minor heart attack over at Kids Camp this week as my normally reliable carrot cake recipe just would not work! I had 26 hungry kids playing outside, all looking forward to coming in and tasting the fr...
This week, I’m writing from Natural Kids camp. I’m hiding in the kitchen while the lovely Jennifer Soares gives our 26 children a Zumba class. I’m not sure exactly what they’re pretending to be at the...
I’m sitting on a windowsill in New York, 53 floors up, gazing out at the most amazing view.
There’s something magical about the city that never sleeps, and I will never get tired of watching the non-...
Little Belle has learnt to swim and we’re at that super-relaxing stage where she is afloat, but looks and sounds like she is drowning. She can do it but there is a lot of splashing and a kamikaze sens...
Naughty Nana is back and arrived with four huge bars of chocolate for the girls … and so the naughtiness begins.
School is officially out for the summer and it’s parties galore. Everywhere I look it’s...
Lately, the children have been very critical of my underwear. In the early-morning madness, I’m often flying up and down the stairs half-dressed and somehow, they find time to comment. Yesterday Belle...
Stop the press. It seems the most effective form of contraception for the next generation may not be birth control pills or condoms, but instead, subjecting them to episodes of Call the Midwife.
I di...
Just a few weeks until the end of term and I am clinging on for dear life. September started out so well. I was laying out uniforms the night before, diligently supervising homework, packing prize-win...
A few days ago I made a video for Facebook with two kids (mine) and a dog (not mine). It was all about the Family Sugar Detox challenge that we have coming up.
It’s based on the premise that we would...
Last week I made the mother of all shipping errors. I completely, totally, ballsed it up.
I’d become worried about electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure from wi-fi and my mobile phone. So, after a...
