You may have noticed that recently I had a baby. Which means that I’ve been given lots of lovely new baby gifts, and also received a few to review. So here’s the first in a series of posts about baby presents, that I hope to complete over the next week or so. (Hollow laughter from […]

I’ve never managed to be one of these bloggers who writes beautiful meaningful posts to her children every month or every year. As a result I’m not entirely sure which child did what when. But as this is our last go around I thought I’d tally up a few things. Tigerboy is 8 weeks old […]

You’d think, four children down the line, that I wouldn’t still be making rookie mistakes. First time around, I babyproofed the house. We had baby gates. We had locks in the video drawer, which itself was in a locked cabinet, which had those cushion cover things on the corners. I had reins for those times […]

{reading} Terry Pratchett, wee free men. Excellent, forgot how good Pratchett is with language. {plotting} money raising ideas, more on that soon. {feeding} endlessly it seems. {cooking} roast chicken, roast potatoes {thinking} days are short with small children. {feeling} tired. Goodnight. {reading} Terry Pratchett, wee free men. Excellent, forgot how good Pratchett is with language. […]

Tigerboy is 7 weeks old. He now weighs 9lb 2, a whole 12oz more than he did 11 days ago. (actually he could weigh anything from 4.10kg to 4.19, he wouldn’t lie still and the scales were really struggling!) He’s 56cm long and his head has grown too. He’s slightly under the 9th centile line […]