R has recently developed a liking for salad. This makes me ridiculously happy. Much happier than her adoration of all things ice-cream related makes me sad or guilty. It is especially ridiculous because she is actually a pretty healthy eater, anyway, and has been eating most of the constituent parts …
As parents of a child in the midst of her third year (or, as it’s more commonly described, the terrible twos), we have developed a number of methods of persuading, bribing, scaring and tricking R into doing what we want or need her to do. None of them, I’m sure, …
One of the perils of working from home, especially when you both do so, is losing your weekends. Since becoming parents we have, generally, become much better at trying to make sure we get some family time at the weekends. However, every now and then deadlines are looming, hours have …
I was putting my make-up on when Rosemary came through and asked if she could watch.
When I was a child, my mum had an alter-ego called Betty.
I know that it’s really important to build up immunity. But…
