If you’ve ever wondered how hardy kids’ clothing is, then let me tell you that it does not withstand being repeatedly sandpapered. A couple of weeks ago we went to visit Mr AMR’s cousin and she had a ramp in the garden for her little dog, who is quite old and can’t jump up and…
I was reading through some old diaries the other week (actually looking for some photos of my Dad, but that’s another matter) and I started to read through a few of my entries. I used to keep a daily journal – it was part of the preparation for my Masters degree – and I so…
This post should be on my other website, strictly speaking; it’s much more concerned with family and personal life than it is with beauty or fashion or (new passion!) interiors. But these worlds necessarily cross over and I thought that a bit of a chat about work and life and balancing the two things might…
I’ll keep the intro short here, because it’s a chatty video below and I don’t want to end up just typing out a sort of inaccurate, truncated transcript. So without further ado: things I’ve struggled with this month and things that have lifted my spirits. The Parenting Highs and Lows for February 2018.
I’ve banged on about this countless times on various social media platforms, but the months at the end of 2017 were absolute chaos for me. We relocated to Somerset, moving house twice, Baby Ted wasn’t sleeping and my work life ground to a halt. In actual fact it didn’t grind to a halt; I continued at…
I genuinely thought that I would be able to kick this post off with some amazing news; the day after I wrote about Ted’s persistent night-wakings, I implemented some changes and he had the most restful night he’s had for months. I think that he perhaps only woke once between 11pm and 5am, which is…
I expect you’ve realised that things are a bit crazy at the moment; I have barely had the time to go online at all, let alone write anything, and when I do get a spare minute to myself I am so knackered that I can’t type a coherent sentence! So I’ll keep this brief but…
Do not adjust your television sets: the title at the top of this page does indeed show that this video post should have been published in June. I’m afraid I have been feeling a little overwhelmed, recently, with regards to work – I constantly feel as though I’m chasing my tail, and the idea of…
I’m trying something a bit new on the video front: A Week In My Life. It’s a sort of scrapbook montage of things that I get up to during the week, but it’s all very informal and unstructured. As you know, I’m not a natural vlogger. I find the process quite excruciating, at times, and I…
The title of this video is totally self-explanatory; there’s really not much I can add. It’s another Day In The Life video, filmed a few weeks ago, and I think I look as though I’m slightly more on top of things than in the last one! (You can watch the previous Day In The Life here.) Read: Surviving…
Well, we’re almost at the point where I’m saying goodbye to “two under two” – Angelica is two in two weeks’ time. All the twos. It has been difficult at times, having a toddler and a newborn, though not quite as bad as I had anxiously thought it might be. But I have an inkling that the…
I’m writing this in a snatched bit of time before bed; New Baby Ted has dropped off unexpectedly early and so I’ve been racing through a long list of admin so that I can go to sleep with a clear mind! So let’s not spend too long on the pleasantries and cut straight to the chase:…
I really enjoy making the Day In My Life videos (so far I’ve done an “at home with baby” one and a “work day” one) and so when I knew I’d be at the Colab studio shoot last week I thought that it would be a perfect opportunity to film another. It was quite likely that the shoot would…
OK, let’s take a look at what’s been happening with the old bod for the last few weeks. Because man have I been tired. I don’t remember being quite this physically exhausted last time at this stage – and I’m not talking about that hangover-style fatigue that plagues you for the first trimester, I’m talking about the…
This is the first “baby and body update” I’ve done since my pregnancy announcement, and I’m trying to remember all of the things I wanted to say but couldn’t. Like, on Angelica’s One Year Update: Oh my God you won’t BELIEVE this but I’m pregnant again! Or on the 14 Month Update: I’m so ridiculously tired and ill,…