Thursday is swimming day and pizza night. Before the first trip to the swimming pool I’d done two business phone calls and sold a website, so I was feeling quite pleased with myself. Just as well Big came down to the pool with me, as it meant she was there to collect smallest while I [...]

There are plus points to working from home. I’m not missing Tigerboy’s first cruising steps along the sofa, because I’m right there, looking up from a blogpost to savour the moment. I can work in every spare minute I can grab around the children’s needs, and while I’m cooking bolognese, or more likely, burning it. [...]

Sleeping in after cold disturbed night day. Running to catch up day. Day of hope, and missed chances and burst bubbles. Broken gingerbread house and heart. A few more days of bassoony goodness held out before us. More phone calls in one day than normal in a month. And so much undone. Amid maths lessons [...]

I have always loved books and reading. As a child, whenever we went out as a family, I would take a book with me, or could be found hidden away with a book I’d borrowed from the shelves of wherever we were. It should be no surprise then, that when I first had children, what [...]

{listening} to Dire Straits and Eric Clapton. And Big playing Knockin’ on Heavens door. {watching} Snow white and the Huntsman. Not a good family film night choice. But it wasn’t actually a choice – the media centre refused to play Blue Rays, and then the TinTin DVD kept sticking so the next on the pile, [...]