Why you should plan your funeral.

The Mothership recently lost one of her closest and dearest friends. They met in Cairo a thousand years ago when my parents were still married. Dad worked with Joyce’s husband, Mike and the couple were regular visitors to our home. Their friendship has prevailed through thick and thin, from country to country, so that [...]

Guilty Pleasures: Hello

I worked as an au pair in Germany for an English family during a year out, which turned out to be the beginning of life as a childcarer in one form or another. I had changed a nappy before, but it was still a steep learning curve. To be honest I had no idea [...]

The Gallery: Mother Nature

The Threeva has been learning about growing plants. She enjoys being outside and looking at the leaves on the trees and digging in the garden. She and her Daddy will go out in all weathers to potter and play. Last year they grew strawberries and if she went missing, I often found her at [...]

Thought for a Thursday

Picture Credit The Mothership has returned from foreign shores to be my afternoon Nanny, so this is in her honour (sort [...]

A 2009 retrospective

You get to Christmas and when people have stopped talking about presents and shopping and asking “are you ready?” they ask the classic rhetorical question: where did this year go? I wondered the same thing at 4am when I was lying awake being kicked by the Jumping Bean. I didn’t really get into blogging [...]

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