The lovely husband is away on a business trip to Costa Rica. I know it’s all meetings and hard work, but I cannot help feeling a little jealous. And he gets to sleep star-shaped in a hotel bed.
True,...
There are good surprises and bad surprises involved in parenting. Bad surprises include the green slime in a newborn’s diaper and the staggering reach of projectile vomit. Good surprises include the f...
I have always been an awkward dancer. A trusty glass of bubbles helps, but I’ve never dashed on to an empty dance floor. I am most comfortable in the middle of a sweaty mob where there is barely any r...
A short note from me this week as I’m reporting from the trenches of Natural Kids camp. Twenty-seven hilarious children, five amazing staff, toys and books galore ... it is so much fun and the most ex...
By the time you read this I’ll have been in France for a few weeks, spending quality time with my kids and drinking lots of red wine (funny how those two seem to go together).
We’re celebrating my da...
I am sure you have all heard the recent statistic that 74.6 per cent of our population is overweight or obese.
That has major implications when it comes to the risk of disease, quality of life and th...
Last night Sarah and I wrapped up our second cooking night at the Chef Shop. She delivered some amazing recipes and tasty samples. I added the nutrition know-how and several inappropriate jokes. I had...
When I was little and went to birthday parties, along with pass-the-parcel and musical statues we played something called The Chocolate Game.
We all sat in a circle and rolled a die; if you were luck...
I am a big fan of keeping life simple. But I am also very bad at it. Take Chloe’s bake sale for example. Last year she was determined to have a pop-up snack stand in the first week of the holidays, to...
There are a lot of roles within parenting. Above all, we are chief distributors of love and affection and I am keeping my fingers crossed (permanently) that if we get that bit right, then the other th...
