by Rebecca | Feb 28, 2020 | Life and Family
I absolutely love World Book Day, and I would have been all over those costume ideas, had it been around when I was at school. Ever since the older one’s first year in Nursery, I’ve loved helping them come up with ideas for costumes, and finding ways to achieve them....
by Rebecca | Feb 20, 2020 | Life and Family, School
I often encounter a strain of mum-culture on social media which encourages us to dread the arrival of school holidays – what a pain they are, and how awful it is to have your kids around, instead of safely ensconced in a classroom. Now, while I will agree that three...
by Rebecca | Feb 14, 2020 | Brilliant Businesses, Life and Family, Re: Writing
With 14 February upon us once again – and we all know it’s a commercial device to extort money from us in the name of doing your romantic ‘duty’, while also causing misery to anyone who feels they don’t conform to the expected romantic convention of being in a couple...
by Rebecca | Feb 7, 2020 | Re: Writing
Every frosty school run, our lovely lollipop man greets us with “Jack Frost’s been out and about this morning, boys!” – much to the littler one’s delight. (The big boy is a bit too Cool for School these days, but he secretly loves it too.) I also love the idea of a...
by Rebecca | Jan 31, 2020 | Life and Family
There are so many things to organise just to get yourself and one child to an extra-curricular event – especially one that’s an hour up the motorway – and in the planning, I am often guilty of giving little or no thought at all to what the actual...
