Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
I heard a couple of really sad and scary tales recently of young children (friends’ of friends) having to have rotten milk teeth removed (one child was having to have twenty removed the other needed five taking out). I couldn’t believe it and wondered whether it was parental ignorance rather than negligence to blame.
Loads of [...]
Both Edie and Mo and also their little friend Bella who came all the way from London to visit us with her mum this weekend have been covered in insect bites. Beki thought that Bella had been bitten by fleas as they have a cat and I’d been telling my kids that it must be [...]
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 find [...]
Whilst on the way to taking the kids pre-school yesterday I saw a group of three people who appeared to be looking for something on the ground at the edge of the village field by the car park. ‘Oh look’ I said to the children ‘that man must have lost something very small and he [...]
Janet, my neighbours gardener, is a good person to know as she has a head full great countryside knowledge. Last week when she came to have coffee with my grandmother and me she very kindly brought me a jar of honey from her bees and a newly planted Aloe Vera ‘puppy’. She told me that [...]
My friend Beki says that her little niece is given echinacea drops in a drink each day and is very rarely sick.
I popped into the local health food shop this morning and found that a small bottle is £5 so I’m going to do a bit of research before I start forking out for it.
My [...]