by Rebecca | Aug 7, 2020 | Life and Family
This year, we decided around May time that a COVID summer holiday abroad was not for us. Our travels with the boys have all been to large, all-inclusive hotels, and that’s exactly what we had planned this year too. We came to realise in May that it almost certainly...
by Rebecca | Jul 31, 2020 | Life and Family
When your child really loves something, you can’t fail to have a small affection for it, even it it’s not something you’d choose to do yourself. But loving and hating Fortnite has been struggle in this house, as I’m sure it is for many –...
by Rebecca | Jul 24, 2020 | Life and Family, Milton Keynes
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...
by Rebecca | Jul 17, 2020 | Life and Family, School
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...
by Rebecca | Jul 10, 2020 | Life and Family
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...
by Rebecca | Jul 3, 2020 | Life and Family
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...
