Summer days out with the kids #3: Chertsey Show, Surrey
I love a good county show. Funny looking rare-breed animals, competitive WI flower displays and costumed re-enactments all washed down with a local cider or two – it’s what the great British summer is all about. We’ve been going to Chertsey Show in Surrey on and [...]
Eye infection? Try breast milk eye drops
For the last week I’ve been sporting a black eye thanks to Little B who poked me right in the socket with a big fat chubby finger. As if that wasn’t bad enough (I’ve given up explaining how it happened, it sounds so lame and [...]
Kiddyum review: Finally! A 100% healthy kids’ ready meal
At last! I’ve finally found a solution to tea times when I've been working all day, my supply of homemade meals in the freezer has depleted and I haven’t had time to do any batch cooking. It’s fresh, healthy, (practically) home cooked and takes just five minutes to [...]
Summer days out with the kids #2: Whitstable Oyster Festival, Kent
You’d think a love of oysters would be a prerequisite for visiting an oyster festival. It’s not. I hate oysters. I mean I really hate them – I’ve tried them once, twice, three times and it’s still not happening. Even so I had a ball [...]
Natural Ketosis diet review: I dropped a dress size and lost three inches from my waist in 28 days
And I did it eating butter, double cream and pork scratchings. It sounds bonkers, but that’s what following a natural ketosis diet involves, and I’m walking proof that it actually works. For the last month I’ve been on a natural ketosis diet-to-your door plan for [...]
Flashback Friday: ‘He doesn’t look anything like you’
‘He doesn’t look anything like you’ and ‘they don’t look like brother and sister’. Those are some of the remarks I get about Little B on an almost daily basis. He might be as fair as BB is dark, with big blue eyes and fair [...]
How to make sibling bedroom sharing a success
After umming and ahhing about whether we really needed to buy a new cot mattress for Little B (we did) he has finally moved out of our bedroom and into BB’s. We live in a two bedroom flat so there’s no question of them both [...]
Summer days out with the kids #1: Sensational Butterflies Exhibition, London
BB doesn't even start school until September yet with the school holidays now upon us I already feel like we should 'do' something with our free time. I'm also conscious that we're now just six weeks away from her entrance to Big School when life as [...]
The Loch Ness monster came to our wedding
It seems like a lifetime ago that I walked down the aisle and became Mrs Misery Guts. In fact it was two lifetimes ago: in 2010 before either BB or Little B had graced us with their presence. We were lucky enough to be able [...]
Do I REALLY need to buy a new cot mattress for baby number two?
After almost nine months sleeping in (our bed) his bedside crib it’s time to move Little B into a proper cot. Given that the crib – we opted for the Chicco Next2Me - is supposed to last from 0-6 months, I think it’s fair to [...]
Easy kids cupcake recipe: banana & raisin ‘bread’
I had planned a different post for today, but it’s raining cats and dogs here so I thought I’d share an easy kids’ cupcake recipe for anyone else in danger of going stir crazy like me. These banana & raisin cupcakes are healthy, contain only [...]
Flashback Friday: the day we nearly burnt down my mum & dad’s house
This time two years ago we were preparing for our first foreign family holiday, which called to mind the previous year’s sojourn which included the day we nearly burnt down my mum and dad’s house (pictured). I thought you might enjoy the tale this Flashback Friday, [...]
5 tips for pain-free breastfeeding
When people talk about breast feeding being painful, I always assumed they meant in the bleeding nipples type of way, like when Little B had tongue tie and I was reduced to tears at every feed. It didn’t occur to me they could be referring [...]
My 8 photos of happiness tag
It’s so easy to take photographs, file them away and suddenly its months or even years before they see the light of day again. So when Imperfect Mum tagged me with the task of coming up with eight pictures that make me happy in her [...]
It’s only now he’s got reassuringly chunky milk-filled legs that I’ve started to relax
When Little B was born and I wrote my last ‘Pregnancy after multiple miscarriage’ post I said I wouldn’t write about the two unsuccessful pregnancies that went before him anymore, because it was time to look forward, not back. I think I was a little [...]
