Domestic Goddesque

The BBC recently reported on Ofsted’s insistence that two friends stop a reciprocal childcare agreement as it is illegal. Quoi? I cannot even begin to convey my anger and frustration at this story and the idea that I now have to be Ofsted-approved to look after my friend’s children (particularly as I have recently had [...]

We have friends coming to visit this weekend: they are staying in the room that will at some point in the relatively near future belong to the Pocket Dictator. She will be getting the upgrade to allow Babydeux free and full use of the nursery which is smaller and (more importantly) has an interconnecting door [...]

I’ve not been back blogging that long but already someone has seen fit to bestow an award upon me. I figure Peggy has just run out of good people to award things to but, hey, I’ll take it where I can get it. Thanks Peggy! A conditional requirement of the honour is that I share [...]

I am the proud owner of a new (to me, anyway. Yet another eBay purchase.) desk and matching chair. DH has, begrudgingly, made space for it in the nerve centre that is the study, now that the Pocket Dictator* has discovered the laptop. More than discover the laptop, she is some kind of child-genius who [...]

The oven we inherited from the former owners of our house is refusing to die, and whilst it clings stubbornly to life, it continues to cook things in unpredictable fashion, which rather makes any attempts at baking quite risky. A very simple tart I made a few weeks ago with some of the masses of [...]

Five things you have on your bathroom shelves1. Toothbrush made of electrickery2. Bio-oil. Not that it did any good last time3. New stylish stripey liquid soap dispenser thing4. Dog shampoo- for the Wonder Hound, natch. 5. Moroccan oil dispenser- no longer filled with rose oil Five things you have in your fridge1. Milk2. Leftover Chinese [...]