Two years ago I got a tweet from Red Ted Art asking if I wanted to do a guest post on her blog. I remember the moment clearly because I laid the laptop down and ran around the sitting room squealing. DH was none the wiser when I tried to tell him that the Red [...]
Written last week: I am in Galway without my Kindle. It is sunning itself on the Kent coast, forgotten in the rush to leave ahead of the snow last time that we were down there. We will be reunited in a couple of weeks, but what it does mean is that I am back to [...] 
I absolutely devoured Amanda Egan’s first two books. The story of Misfit Mummy kept me in thrall: I definitely identified with the school-run-mum wondering if she would fit in, trying to make friends, be involved with the school and do the best for her child. I felt her pain too, and delighted in her victories. She [...] 
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they find themselves knowing books by heart. Dear Zoo is one of those books: parents the length and breadth of the country can recite it verbatim, so often have they read the story to their little ones. In fact roughly one on five UK households has a [...] I was so excited that the Love Books Exchange has branched out as far as the UK. It’s such a great idea. And The Girls said as much today when a parcel arrived bearing a furry paw print. I cannot tell you how speechless I was when I unpacked a mass of fur and [...] 
I came across Amanda Egan, better known as Mummy Misfit, on twitter. I can’t remember why now, but it made me follow her, and download her books to Kindle. I say her books- she’s working on her third- because she wrote two of themthem in her car whilst parked outside the front of [...] 
I don’t know what it is about my children. Though they are very different, they have one thing in commomn: they always cry when I leave them at ‘school’ (Kindergarten and Nursery have always been referred to as school at DG Manor. I’ve no idea why anymore.) Before you start thinking that I am a [...] |
  
  
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