Merry, at A Patch of Puddles has started a blog hop to publicise the new Tommy’s campaign, in conjunction with Bounty. Tommy’s are putting some advice into every Bounty pack and further advice online, to help with five points toward a healthier pregnancy: nutrition weight management exercise quitting smoking mental …
I hope you’ve enjoyed Wednesday’s book reviews and have found some new books to take on holiday with you, or just to add to your to-be-read pile. The day started with some holiday reading recommendations from Elizabeth Buchan and then continued with reviews of the books I’ve read recently, Sister …
Today’s theme is Holiday Reading and is hopefully going to give you some ideas of books take on holiday with you – or to curl up on the sofa and read if you’re staying put. It kicks off shortly with Elizabeth Buchan’s holiday reading picks – you may well be …
Rosemary was playing with a mirror and a light the other day. She was getting the light to bounce off the mirror onto the ceiling to shine her new friend Dangly who, by the way, is a spider. While congratulating her on discovering refraction (oh, who am I kidding, I …
Somehow, I managed to talk myself into airing my dirty laundry on my blog – well, not quite, but I am going to show you the insides of our fridge. People all over the (UK parent) blogosphere have been displaying the contents of their fridges. I thought it sounded like …
This recipe is generally very popular with children (though it failed on Sunday, probably due to Rosemary and her two friends having far too much fun to sit down and eat food). The magic ingredient is probably the shaped pasta, which we get from our local healthfood shop, Sunshine Health. …
This morning, Rosemary told a man in the Co-op five times, ‘I’m on my way to ballet’ and in the end I had to say, ‘She’s talking to you’. Then she was standing in the aisle when an older man wanted to get past and he said, ‘Are you in …
Today has been a day of looking after the girls – taking Rosemary to nursery school, pushing Eleanor round town while doing the shopping, cleaning the kitchen and making dinner (and pudding), going to breast-feeding group, having a coffee in Costa with Eleanor, picking Rosemary up from nursery school, having …
I was wondering recently whether to introduce puddings on a regular basis. At the moment, they are definitely treats and few and far between. I recall reading in some parenting book or magazine that it’s good to have a (reasonably healthy) pudding and to offer it without any conditions – …
