I don’t quite know what it is about December that makes me so down in the dumps every year, except oh yes, maybe I do. Maybe it’s the way...

Baffling contraption As we are wont to do from time to time, H and I have started a small health kick. It’s not a high kick. We’re not...

Part of a Lego exhibition we saw on the weekend and in no way a freakishly accurate representation of our bedroom when it’s my morning to...

While Garnet was sick all he has wanted to do was have me read him books while he languished in my lap. Once day I dragged out a Play...

Why the italics, you might ask. What has Gusto done to merit that? Nothing. Gusto is being an exemplary feline. It is the jellicle cats...

So sweet, you’d never know they have tiny ear canals brimming with filth and germs. Nor that the one on the right is about to throw up in...

Thing 1: Since one or other or another of his or my recent colds or ear infections or other random maladies that have blurred into one...

Because I want this to remain a mummy blog, and not morph into a beauty blog, I shall refrain from giving you the contact details of the...

In the event of finding yourself over thirty-eight weeks pregnant and suffering from a virus that makes you burn with fever and shake...

My most excellent friends Nic and Wilf are getting married today! So, in their honour, I present my top ten pieces of wedding day advice....

Must dust cat. To our dear friends whose hen’s and buck’s nights we failed to attend last night, the following conversation is what we...

This is not strictly relevant to the following post except that it sums up better than any other photo I have how today has made me feel....

1. You have to stay somewhere as good or better than home. My very clever friend Other Jess once told me this, and I think she is right....

Swimming in an ocean rock pool. I am a bit slow, clearly, but I have finally discovered a place that has all the nice seawater of the...

Things aren’t going exactly according to plan on our holiday. No sooner had we arrived and unpacked our Tetris-style car that took us a...

I actually had a very, very nice birthday. May Blossom decided that I should enjoy the day for as many hours as possible so she got up at...

My little family is about to take a little break. Not from each other, but from the city and work, from battling for parking and crowded...

I bought the tickets a few months ago on a whim, because H loves Bonnie Prince Billy, who is a grumpy-looking, balding, blond bearded...

The reason for the subterfuge is that since blackberries are a terrible pest in these parts, and you are supposed to keep them away by...

I am a hoarder. I come from hoarders, I married a hoarder and together we have bred a tiny hoarder. Over the years, H and I have...