Explaining miscarriage to small children

A week ago today I was looking forward to telling the children that we were expecting a new baby brother or sister for them in early September. We hadn’t told many people about the pregnancy as I was keen to find out that it wasn’t twins again before sharing the joyous news. We’d held off [...]

Green holidaying

This time last year we were using some of my City bonus to book a Beale family holiday for some urgent winter-sun in Lanzarote,one of the Spanish Canary Islands.

We did have a wonderful time but it was tremendously expensive and if the weather had been poor we would have been hard pressed to [...]

We do like to be beside the seaside (when it’s freezing)

Despite the fact that I truely hate being cold,the kids and I have discovered this winter that we really like visiting beaches when it’s super cold (but sunny) as they are always deserted and it feels so wonderful to have so much open space &light all around us.

Yesterday we visited deserted [...]

Trying on bridesmaid/pageboy outfits for a big fancy wedding is lots of fun!

My kids are very privileged to be involved in my very best friend’s wedding celebrations in March to be held in her local village and then at big ol’Berkeley Castle. Her fiance is Italian and his family are all very classy so it makes absolute sense that us Brits are to show them a [...]

School closed due to snow

We listened to the local radio station to hear the long list Worcestershire schools who were unable to open due to to overnight snow &the kids were thrilled when they finally heard the name of their pre-school.

The kiddies and their Daddy wolfed down some steamy porrdige and Horlicks before making an enormous snow [...]

How to be green with pre-school kids and babies

I’ve become a bit of a Mumsnet addict what with all the quality comment (often hilarious) from other parents on a wide variety of interesting topics.

This thread is definitely worthy of posting here as it helps work out lots of easy ways to green ones life with particular regard to having small kiddies or [...]

Having a Ball at local soft play centre

As many readers will know I’m not one for splashing the cash these days and have therefore managed to put off the day when I took my kiddies to the local soft play centre ‘Having a Ball’in Malvern for the 7 months since we relocated here from London. This was partly my daughter’s doing [...]