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Silent Sunday

Seeing the Christmas lights

After being cooped up at home for most of the week due to Sophie being poorly, it was a relief to finally get out of the house towards the end…

Friday Fabulous Five #14

It’s Friday again and time for me to share my Friday Fabulous Five – five of my favourite posts from this week. As always, it’s a mixture of the funny…

The Friday Focus – 05/12/14

After last week’s dramatic week, I was hoping for a calmer week this week. To some extent that has been the case, mostly due to Sophie being quite She had…

The Broken Boys

This week’s ‘The Prompt’ is ‘I read the news today…’ which reminded me of an assignment I had when I was doing a creative writing course to write a piece…

Christmas time

Once again It’s Christmas time Time for mince pies and mulled wine Gifts to buy Don’t overspend! Cards to make, and write, and send Carols to sing A school nativity…

Me in the birth pool

The NICE-est place to give birth

There’s been a lot of comments and activity in my social media feeds over the last couple of days about the new NICE guidelines on intrapartum care (care during the…

Wicked Wednesday

Sophie wasn’t too impressed by her first visit to Santa last year and I’m not sure Jessica was that keen either!

31 days of Christmas books

For December, I’ve swapped out the books on the girls’ bookcase and replaced them with Christmassy books instead. Next year I might be organised enough to wrap some for a…

The truth about… the pre-Christmas rush

Once again it seems that December has snuck up on me with the realisation that Christmas is around the corner and I’m hopelessly disorganised yet again. The fabric for the…