After the best summer in living memory (for me, at least; those older have enjoyed banging on about the summer of '76 which was, of course, hotter, longer and tougher) we find ourselves hurtling into autumn. The leaves are starting to fall, the nights are drawing in...
Don't panic, but this might be the last monthly update on The Uphill in its current form. I'm considering merging my two websites together, so that beauty and style content from A Model Recommends sits alongside life updates and family stuff and posts about being a...
I think, for the first time, my self-imposed monthly update deadline may have beaten me. I do not have a single ounce of energy to type up my thoughts or think of witty things to say about poo (or the fact that the other day I got poo all over my tracksuit bottoms,...
These sports markers give me such horrendous PE flashbacks; the gym teacher (Miss Lawton) barking instructions at us as we stood shivering in the cold, watching her jog along in her shell suit, throwing the coloured markers down on the grass as she went. "GIRLS! This...
I must stop writing these updates at the last minute - although, why change what is now such an established habit? I think that the majority of the monthly updates I've written (and I've done one a month, without fail, since July 2015) have been hurriedly typed at a...
This is my third and final post with Huggies Pure Wipes and I wanted to talk about how nappy-changing time can be one of the most important times of the day in terms of connecting with your baby and having a bit of fun. If you have an absolutely jam-packed schedule of...
Just a quick post: some higher-tog sleepsuits for those with f-f-f-f-freezing houses. (To be fair, it's not that bad now that we've worked out the heating, but it still gets a little bit nippy in the small hours!) Most babies and toddlers are just fine in the 2.0 tog...
This is where I'm supposed to write "how time flies!" "I can't believe Ted is a year old already!" or "it seems like only yesterday that Ted was a tiny newborn wrapped in a little blanket!" But actually, the past year has felt exactly like a year. Perhaps it's because...
A new feature for you, to supplement the written monthly updates that you read here on the blog; Parenting Highs and Lows will be a chatty, rambling video about all of the good and bad things that have happened over the course of the month - struggles and triumphs,...
I know that it feels very unseasonal to be talking about ice lollies, but they're the most-requested treat in our household (both me with my Mint Magnums and Angelica with her Mini Milks!) regardless of the temperature outside. Our appetite for "frozen things on...
Ted is now the proud owner of a miniature parka - the last member of the family to get one. I virtually live in my green parkas - I have a few in various states of disrepair and so I wear the really scuzzy one for being in the garden and my posher one for town. (I...
In my second post with Huggies Pure Wipes (the first one, The Art of Nappy Changing, is here) I want to run through some of my most-used baby products for bath and body. I could fill pages and pages with reviews of all of the things I've tried (I use them on myself as...
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