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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m Kelly, the face behind the vintage silhouette. She has a much better figure than me: I eat too much cookie dough. I’m a thirty-something Mother, Blogger and Girl Friday, married to my beloved DH.
Domestic Goddesque shares ideas for simple recipes, house-keeping and crafts for every age, along with a few shortcuts so that you can appear to be the Domestic Goddess you want to be.