My Blog
Writing, business, family life, Milton Keynes - there's all sorts on here!
Eating Out Again – An MK Mum’s Experience
Going into lockdown was easy – coming out again is proving more complicated. Everywhere is the same, but it's also different, and I've realised it can feel quite uncomfortable; first of all accepting how much things have changed, and secondly, getting to grips with...
Goodbye Homeschool – Three Things I Definitely Won’t Miss
17 weeks – minus three weeks of school holidays – and here we are, at the end of the summer term. When all this started back in March, there were dark predictions that the children wouldn’t all be back in school until September. Insane! That’s months off – surely we...
A Big Birthday in Lockdown
The last time I saw my mum was 28 December 2019. She lives up in the Frozen North, and visits are usually planned some weeks in advance –we had one booked for a week in March, when the little one was due to take the stage in his big school play, but all of that was...
Back in the National Trust for Summer 2020
A couple of weeks ago, I was flicking through some photos of last year’s school summer break – it was a lovely catalogue of brilliant days out and activities, mainly supplied for little or no cost by shops and businesses in the local area. We had £2-per-child sandpit...
My Top Achievements in Lockdown
Nearly six months since the quick fix was made to Big Ben, and the opening seconds of 2020 were chimed in. I think we can all agree that none of us could have pictured this physically dividing, yet unifying experience that the first six months of the year has brought....
Homeschool on a Rainy Day
I know it’s very British to talk about the weather, but we really have been so lucky to have had such a sunny lockdown. Which makes it all the more difficult when homeschool on a rainy day comes along. We have had two or three of these days in the last 13 weeks, and...
Apocalypse Now – Our COVID-19 Drive Through Test
A trip to the local COVID-19 drive through was not part of our plans last weekend. But on Saturday, our little one woke up all wrong. He was listless, no appetite, and most surprising of all, no motivation for his first ever at-home Beaver Scout camp, due to take...
Three Things I Want to Keep Doing After Lockdown
The changes we’ve had to make to our lives in lockdown have had some unexpected benefits – and I want to keep up a lot of these good habits as things begin to return to the way they were. Here are three things that I want to keep doing after lockdown. Number...
