Things they fail to tell you about toddlers
We’ve had one of THOSE weeks. A pooey, pukey, two baths a day and soaking of clothes in the kitchen sink sort of a week. Little B still isn’t quite over his non-specific virus (why oh why do they call it that? Being sick is quite [...]
5 Mother’s Day presents you ACTUALLY want
I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but there seems to be more tat around than usual in the run up to Mother’s Day. Crap trinket boxes, naff cuddly toys and overpriced balloons are all crammed into the windows of the shops in our high street, all vying [...]
How to establish a bedtime routine
I THINK we may have done it. Famous last words of course, but after 16 months I think we might finally have got Little B into a bedtime routine. Until now, for various reasons, he’d not only been going to bed when we went to [...]
#MySundayPhoto
There have been some new arrivals in BB's classroom this week. A local farm has given them some eggs to look after, and they started hatching mid-week. I was lucky enough to be able to watch one when I arrived to collect her from an [...]
Should you take a child to a funeral?
We had some sad news this week. BB and Little B’s great grandad – Misery Guts’s grandad – died. He was in his 90s and had been unwell for a while so his death wasn’t entirely unexpected, but it’s still a shock when it actually [...]
5 kids’ characters who make me want to SCREAM
Big news! They’re bringing back Super Ted! In case you weren’t around in the 1980s, Super Ted was a Welsh flying crime-fighting bear, which when you think about it is no less plausible than a Teletubbie or a Twirlywoo. Of course, as with all these [...]
#SagGoneGrooveOn: beating nappy sag with Pampers!
Babies have got it pretty easy when you think about it. They can sleep whenever and wherever they like, get fed and watered on demand – again whenever and wherever they like - and thanks to pushchair engineering Rolls and Royce would be proud of they [...]
#MySundayPhoto
This week I discovered I hate half term. Not only is there extra washing and preparing of meals, we spent far too much money trying to entertain the kids when actually it's the little things in life that they really enjoy. Like this balloon BB found [...]
Little Dish hamper competition winner!
Thank you so much to everyone who entered our competition to win a hamper of Little Dish Go Gos goodies worth £35! One way to enter the giveaway, which included toddler snacks, a family cookbook and a colour-in tablecloth, was by sharing your favourite healthy children's snacks, [...]
5 reasons I hate half term
It’s official: just like the school run, I’ve discovered I hate half term. They call it the ‘half term holiday’, but it’s not a holiday. Not my kind of holiday, anyway. There’s more toys to tidy up, more meals to produce, more washing to be [...]
What makes a true friend?
Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them but you know they are there. Friendship is mutual dislike of the same people. Friendship is not a big thing…it’s a million little things. The internet is awash with sayings about what makes friendship, but [...]
#Poweredbyplants: 5 ways to get kids to eat more veg
Apparently only 22% of children know that broccoli grows on a plant. In a totally unscientific test I asked BB (aged four) where broccoli comes from. She looked at me as though I was stupid and said ‘you plant a seed in the ground and [...]
#MySundayPhoto
This is BB and Little B playing with my old dolls house. My mum and dad refurbished it for BB two Christmases ago, and she absolutely adores it. It keeps her absorbed for hours, tinkering with the rooms and rearranging the furniture. This is the [...]
Getting a GP appointment is a lot like buying concert tickets
Today I'm coming to you from my bed. I've caught Little B’s ‘non-specific’ virus, which ironically turns out to be quite specific. I woke up one morning this week with an itchy rash all over my body (the type of rash I have only ever [...]
5 healthy snacks for kids & Little Dish prize giveaway!
Ever since BB started school I feel like I’m laying on a constant buffet from 3pm until bedtime. She constantly complains that she’s hungry, and judging by the way she hoovers up everything I offer her I think she genuinely is. One of the reasons [...]
