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Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker

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New baby sleeping and feeding routines

I’ve been revising my knowledge of Gina Ford’s baby routines like a fiend since getting a new copy of her latest edition of the
‘The New Contented Little Baby Book: The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting‘ .
When we first had the twins 5 years ago I was ready to put both babies out for collection [...]

Getting the house nice and keeping it nice

I had such an inspiring post from a woman called Caz who has 5 children who admitted that getting housework done is a challenge but this very blog had inspired her. I was so flattered and so pleased that she’d written to me I thought I’d stop thinking about the garden for a while and [...]

How to have twins and stay sane

My oldest friend (from 1984) and I have children the same age (Hannah was born a few weeks after our twins in 2003) but she and her husband now have gorgeous non-ID twin baby girls too who are now 7 months old.

I stayed the night with them on Saturday while I was in London as [...]