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It can be hard trying to persuade my two-year-old Florence to wear some of the lovely clothes I’ve bought her – this girl has some early fashion sense and a mind…

What better way to cheer up a drizzly November day than to receive a surprise parcel in the post, put together by a kind, creative soul just for you? Well this…

It was my sister Katie’s birthday last week and we marked it by having a day out in Liverpool with my little girl, the only one of our children young enough…

I read through some of my old posts this week, the ones which were all about Roger going into the hospice and how we felt and kind of dealt with it…

We have a few Christmas traditions in our house – festive music while we trim the tree, a family trip to a the singalong at the Liverpool Philharmonic, plenty of sloe…

Good morning and welcome to November, officially deep into Autumn and full-on winter coat and central heating on weather. So how was your Halloween? We had a great time at my…

The new book by Eric Carle has proved a hit in our house – the upside down world of The Nonsense Show seems to make perfect sense to kids and the…

This weekend we went to stay with one of my old school friends, as she was hosting a little get together for a few of us and our little ones at…

If Sylvanian Families had been around when I was young, I can tell you I would have had an obsession with them I’m sure. I used to love little toys and…

We’re just over a third of the way through September but already my mood seems to have lifted slightly from ‘I can’t cope with the world’ to more like ‘I can…

It’s nearly the end of the school year and time to start thinking about buying new uniforms and shoes for the return to class in September. I always try to order…

I had a lovely surprise this week. I found out I had been nominated in not one but two categories for the prestigious MAD Blog Awards, and I still can’t actually…