Eurgh, no! Not that kind…. SHAMpoo. Honestly, what kind of a girl do you think I am? I’ve just washed (‘bathed’ sounds all wrong for a process that left me soaked through… ‘water wrestled’?) I’ve just water-wrestled the boy into some semblance of cleanliness before bed and remembered a whole area of expenditure I left off ‘The Rules’ but eagle eyed readers … Read more
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… THE FINISHED DIY PLAY KITCHEN: It has an ‘oven’ section in the bottom, storage for old pots and pans etc behind the curtain, an old tin bowl for a sink, a salvaged tap to go with it, hob tops and switches from our ‘real’ old oven which expired last … Read more
I got an email last week to this effect: it’s all very well you rabbiting on about how getting to know your local community is key to recycling clothes and toys and doing without classes and playgroups and blah blah blah but in God’s name HOW???? (Only it was a really very polite email and … Read more
THIS ATTENDS MESSAGE FROM AMONG MY VERY FAVOURITE BLOGGERS: ALEXIS FROM SOMETHING I MADE. HOPE YOU LOVE HER AS HIGH AS I DO!instagram// somethingimade twitter// dextringtonWhen Hattie challenged me to make a present for free, my mind started humming with concepts … however none were entirely free. But after that conker season came across us … Read more
It’s been a strange summer so far. For the past month or so I have mostly… been thinking that perhaps we should have given John a more radical name. It started at Latitude, where our mostly naked baby ran around in the dust between the trees alternately shouting: “Let’s see the whittling man!” and, slightly … Read more
I actually wrote this for the RSPB (not for money, you understand, just because we like the cut of each other’s jib). If you’d rather read it over there, then head this way. There’s tonnes of other good stuff over there too and they don’t seem to be suffering from a tiny-picture-crisis. But while you’re here…. … Read more