So we had a great time in Frankfurt at the Christmas market but now it’s all catching up with us. Friday night we had to rush Jonathan into A&E as he wasn’t breathing properly. It turns out it was only croup, but it was still scary. Yesterday I cycled Ruth to her music lesson, only [Continue]

We’ve just come back from Frankfurt (Germany) where we went to go and see the Christmas market! We got really cheap flights of 1p!!!! The market was amazing. There were all sorts of yummy foods! We went for the, a little bit of everything approach!! There was a very, very, very big Christmas tree in [Continue]

Me, Rhiannon, Harriet&Co went to portsmouth historic dockyard a couple of weeks ago! We had a great time!Billy’s not impressed -> [Continue]

Mum is turning this blog into something very boring. must find something interesting to talk about…….. [Continue]

Jonathan today decided to get creative – he ran in and declared “come and see my lightning strike I made”. Well, here it is, cleverly crafted from toy cars. [Continue]

Shanklin Chine is imnsho pants. It’s tacky and there is really nothing much to it. But on Open Heritage weekend it was free and it was my birthday so what better way to celebrate than to visit Shanklin Chine – I can’t resist a freebie! It did have the benefit that it was dark and [Continue]

So these were odd. In the first one the light was green and we were pretending to be corpses but I’d say that it doesn’t quite come off! [Continue]

I loved my sling and still now miss using it. I came across these photos of Jonathan and me when he was really at the limit of what I could cope with carrying. I wish I had it when the girls were small, I’m sure it would have been much easier to have had a [Continue]

We just made fudge. We (Bex and Susan) had a go last night and it came out completely crystallised. I decided I’d reboil it and see if that helped but it just stayed very crystallised. I added some butter and that didn’t help, so I gave it a swig of milk. It went very very [Continue]

For Bex’s 6th birthday she got an ice cream maker – a kids one. It has been sitting on top of my wardrobe until last week. We finally got it out last week, collected all the ingredients and did indeed make lovely ice cream, if only a very tiny amount. The thing is, Bex is [Continue]