Autumn Days Out - Feeding the kid's curiosity!
I love Autumn, it has so much character and unpredictability. The other day number 1 son and I went with friends down to our local...
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- Jun 24
- 2 min
Beautiful, useful and free family days out - Cider Apple picking
Cider Apple Picking – what’s your picking personality? What could be more quintessentially English, quintessentially West Country than a...
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- Nov 11, 2020
- 1 min
National Vanilla Cupcake Day
What a brilliant idea! Cupcakes are always wonderful, and vanilla is an unsung hero of the kitchen so here is my favourite super-simple...
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- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
Dyslexia Week - A super-power uncovered
This week is Dyslexia Week, an annual event to help people become more aware of dyslexia and how it affects others. According to the...
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- Sep 28, 2020
- 1 min
When our kids start growing up- what about us?
A Yesterday was such a day, off he went with a friend to a skate park for the afternoon and there was I left to do what I wanted to do....
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- May 17, 2019
- 2 min
Our children's mental health - #mentalhealthawarenessweek
Number 1 son loves being outdoors. We are very fortunate to live in a small, rural village where I feel confident enough to allow him to...
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- May 9, 2019
- 2 min
Children shut out of playground
Churchyard and Playground: closed due to vandalism Are our children failing us or are we failing them? My grandpa, always fond of a...
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- Mar 5, 2019
- 2 min
Are our children part of a very large digital experiment?
Do you feel like you and your children are part of a very large digital experiment? An experiment that you won’t know the results of...
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- Oct 11, 2018
- 2 min
Parenting - Breaking news: Today I had a bath!
Breaking news: Today I had a bath. How is this news? I hear you cry. I love baths, I love mellowing out in some slightly too hot water...
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- Sep 25, 2018
- 2 min
Analog world v digital world - time to go retro?
My grandma often used to chuckle “if you hold on to something long enough, it’ll come back in fashion”. I’m not sure I fully appreciated...
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- Sep 17, 2018
- 2 min
Same old, same old - Is it positive to get back to the routine of daily life
Same old, same old... Is it just me or have you also found it really hard to get back into things since the summer holiday? The Swiss...
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- Jul 12, 2018
- 1 min
The England team�??s coming home but every cloud�?�.
Number one son had his first taste of football five years ago in his reception class where it transpired that his understanding was that...
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- Jul 4, 2018
- 2 min
The Birds - evil or misunderstood?
I realise that number one sone and I are incredibly fortunate to live in an idyllic setting like Cornwall. It is every bit the ‘Poldark’...
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- Jun 27, 2018
- 3 min
Our kids and the game Fortnite!
Once upon a time fortnite was a mis-spelt word meaning 14 days. Now it’s a computer game on the tip of the tongue of both children and...
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- Jun 12, 2018
- 1 min
Get the kids out and geocache the world!
Number one son excitedly searched through the undergrowth alongside his German cousin, eleven years his senior. They turned over stones...
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- May 16, 2018
- 2 min
Pod-tastic Play... kid's Royal Wedding fever in the playground
Number one son’s school has a new feature in the playground. The kids are incredibly excited about it; number one son has talked about...
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- Apr 6, 2018
- 1 min
Has Spring sprung? Hear the birds.
Has Spring sprung? I am an eternal optimist and would like to say yes it has. What are the signs? Well, in our lovely rural part of South...
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- Mar 24, 2018
- 2 min
Where have all the NHS children's dentists gone?
So….number one son has broken his two front teeth! Yes they are his big teeth. It all happened the moment after I made the classic risk...
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- Mar 6, 2018
- 1 min
Mother�??s day is coming�?� the gift is the giver.
I am a single parent so there's no help available when number one son wants to buy me a gift. Knowing that he wanted to buy me a present...
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- Nov 15, 2017
- 1 min
Remembrance and Story-telling - Lest we Forget
Story-telling in our culture is often left to the ‘professionals’, we take our children along to story time at the library or get excited...
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- Oct 31, 2017
- 1 min
The toys have arrived in time for Christmas Fayres
Woo hoo it’s like Christmas here in our household. What an exciting way to start the day with an early toy delivery. No 1 son was like a...
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- Jun 29, 2017
- 2 min
Sight loss and sharing difficult news with children
Last year I suffered a large degree of sight loss. This wasn’t very new for me as I’d been registered partially sighted for many years...
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- Jun 16, 2017
- 2 min
Democracy, the World, Trump and our Kids
I was excited to see that number 1 son’s school has been exploring democracy in their various year groups. I asked number 1 son earlier...
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- Jun 1, 2017
- 2 min
A different kind of gift for Father's Day?
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” Michael Altshuler There’s no getting away from it there are moments when...
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- May 23, 2017
- 1 min
Swallows and Amazons, kid's spy adventures and more
I wrote this post before today's tragic news of the bombing in Manchester at a concert in the Arena. I find myself asking the question...
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- May 16, 2017
- 2 min
Having lost my beautiful, special friend to cancer last week, today I felt a walk in the rain was ap
Having lost my beautiful, special friend to cancer last week, today I felt a walk in the rain was appropriate... I think we develop...
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- Apr 5, 2017
- 1 min
Things to do with the kids over Easter! #2 Build a Den
#2 Build a den Today I took number one son and two of his friends out. We went to an orchard where we had permission to play and the kids...
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- Apr 3, 2017
- 1 min
Things to do with the kids over Easter!
#1 Make pizza and cake in a cup Lunch was a doddle today, number 1 son made it himself – with supervision, of course. For his first...
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- Jan 30, 2017
- 1 min
Basketball - a great family day out!
I’m not much of a sports person whether playing or watching but who knew basketball would be so enjoyable? Number 1 son and I were...
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- Jan 23, 2017
- 2 min
Amazing Science for Kids
When I was a child science seemed like a very big subject that only teenagers and academic adults were privy to. I don’t remember having...
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- Jan 23, 2017
- 2 min
Amazing Science for Kids
When I was a child science seemed like a very big subject that only teenagers and academic adults were privy to. I don’t remember having...
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- Jan 23, 2017
- 2 min
Amazing Science for Kids
When I was a child science seemed like a very big subject that only teenagers and academic adults were privy to. I don’t remember having...
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- Jan 15, 2017
- 2 min
Children should be seen and heard
As discussed in my previous post I’ve decided not to binge on resolutions this year, despite this I have decided to try harder at some...
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- Jan 6, 2017
- 2 min
Bad news at Christmas - time to refocus priorities
I love Christmas and New Year, I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I think it’s wonderful. I love the excuse to get together with...
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- Nov 4, 2016
- 2 min
Remember, Remember...parkin
Childhood Memories – Parkin This lovely dark sticky treacly cake evokes warm feelings of fantastic bonfire nights before Health and...
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- Oct 13, 2016
- 1 min
Autumn Days Out - Feeding the children's curiosity!
I love Autumn, it has so much character and unpredictability. The other day number 1 son and I went with friends down to our local...
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- Sep 23, 2016
- 2 min
Great Family Autumn Days Out - Cider Apple Picking
Cider Apple Picking – what’s your picking personality? What could be more quintessentially English, even more quintessentially West...
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- Sep 16, 2016
- 2 min
The Dog Answer to Child Obesity
I don’t know about you but I find the news that nearly a third of children aged between 2 and 15 are overweight or obese completely...
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- Sep 8, 2016
- 1 min
Insect Day - cheap kid's activities for days off
Insect Day… …is what number 1 son calls the day when after six weeks of entertaining your children you get one extra day to string it out...
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- Aug 25, 2016
- 2 min
Cheap family days out in France
Phew! I’m exhausted. We’ve had another day at the local piscine. It was a gloriously sunny day going up to 36 in the afternoon. No 1 son...
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- Aug 23, 2016
- 2 min
Fabulous, French and Free!
The darkness of night is closing in as I sit on the gite balcony. There is the sound of fireworks nearby and the occasional shower of...
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- Aug 13, 2016
- 2 min
Market Merriment
Usually you can go into a French town and count on one hand how many people you see out and about as the tumbleweed rolls across your...
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- Aug 9, 2016
- 1 min
Lido Days
So today we’re in deepest, beautiful France. Number 1 son, granny and I spent the day the local municipal piscine. If I were to put a kit...
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- Jul 26, 2016
- 1 min
Numeracy to go, please!
Six weeks is a long time with no numeracy or literacy in your kid’s life. Will they forget everything they’ve learnt? Don’t worry you can...
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- Jul 22, 2016
- 1 min
We're on the move this weekend!
We’re on the move This weekend it is estimated that there will be 14 million car journeys made in the UK as the school holidays start....
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- Jul 21, 2016
- 1 min
Things to do with kids on a journey (part 1)
“Are we nearly there yet?” Oh those familiar words – my son says it on the way home from school! Of course this is the season for long...
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- Jul 13, 2016
- 1 min
Please come to my shop!
When my friend Susan and I were teenagers we very virtuously volunteered in a ‘Traidcraft’ shop on occasional Saturdays. This was a shop...
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- Jul 4, 2016
- 1 min
Day 4
Hurrah! He's here.....meet Ronald the dino. The eggs all have different dinosaurs - see the Bag of Discovery (coming very soon in the web...
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- Jul 2, 2016
- 1 min
Day 2
Amos got up this morning very excited to see if our new pet had hatched out...... Not quite yet!
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