Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
Even as a grown-up prior to having school aged children I couldn’t help but think of September as a new beginning. I guess after so many many years in education where we had a lonnnnng vacation and then a fresh new start with new teachers, new subjects, new kit, new friends etc. it is inevitable [...]
Goodness me it’s been nearly a fortnight since I last wrote. Time flies when you’re suffering from a mysterious virus which makes you sleep all the time at the same time as four year old twins struggle through chicken pox!
I’ve been looking at the photos I took BEFORE I drenched my beloved camera with sparkling [...]
This weekend I paid a visit to my remarkable friend Jane who lives on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire (a large rock in the Atlantic ocean just off the coast of south western Wales).
Jane won’t mind me saying that I was completely humbled by seeing where she lives with her young daughter Martha and her partner Juan.
They [...]
We are very excited because Big Bertha has finally joined the family. She is a twelve year old, 5-berth, Coachman touring caravan with peach soft furnishings a small shower/loo and a great kitchenette.
A while back we started wondering whether we should get a ‘van as we love taking the children away but did not want [...]
Last night I wrote a page of Caravanning Essentials, things we think we’ll need to take with us when we go caravanning with the 1996 5 berth Coachman Oasis touring caravan we are buying from nearby Country Choice Caravans.
We’ve just got back from a lovely Easter break to Criccieth, North Wales where we stayed in [...]
It’s going to be hard to write this post as I’m keen not to offend anyone especially those lovely people who were happy for us that we were off for a week’s holiday at Center Parcs and assumed we’d really have a fabulous time.
The official line is that we really did not enjoy our holiday [...]