The two suitcases are packed — beautifully, if I do say so myself — using the rolling technique. I am a fairly crap clothes folder, so it...

Did you know that today is International Fifteen-Minute Nap Day? I didn’t either, until May Blossom informed me. It’s some sort of...

My kitchen is as tidy as my photographs are focused. As the day when we board a plane for a fourteen-hour flight with a toddler grows...

Rainy days when you have a toddler are, however, a whole different kettle of weasels. Especially a toddler who is going through an...

How many of your clothes do you love? I mean love as in you’d think about them for a long, long time if you never saw them again. I have...

Last night H and I, for the first time in months, left the house together, at night, without May Blossom. When she was littler we used to...

Welcome to Cape Fear. Also Cape Hliarious Strategic Removal of Letters on Signs. I’ve been thinking this morning about H’s and my...

What this means is that the food bloggers are always writing about the finding delicious new season apples in their farmers’ markets just...

This young orang-utan could rustle up a tastier dinner that the recipe that follows. Sometimes when the supplies of food in our house get...

Fortunately, Other Jess turned up this morning with a tub of vanilla ice-cream and the words ‘iced coffee’ on her lips. I cancelled my...

B Blueberries: why not allowed to eat unlimited quantities? C Cat: for kissing. D Doors, slamming thereof: why so annoying to parents? E...

I learned of Flora’s (a pseudonym) birth by a text message with a picture an hour after her birth, which was unexpectedly...

My grandparents in 1931. There is a slight chance that the love of a good coat can be inherited. We are going to America in a month. This...

For those of us who don’t go out of the house to work, office sweeps are more of a challenge. Two years ago I was freelance editing from...

This morning, between baking four huge chocolate cakes and dealing with a toddler suffering from what I thought was fear of the noise the...

Where are your friends? If this is some sort of sock conspiracy to make me lose my tiny mind and turn to the cooking sherry before nine...

How funny, that's exactly the outfit I am wearing as I write this blog post, right down to the lipstick and earrings. Mem Fox says in her...

May Blossom's Birthday Cake May Blossom turned one and it was a marvellous day. There were blueberry pancakes with maple syrup and bacon,...

But I couldn’t think what to do. I wanted a nap, but couldn’t sleep. Leaving May Blossom with H, I shufflestomped (yes, exactly like a...

Today I was going to start a series inspired by the lovely blog Soulemama, in which each Friday I would post a picture of a wonderful...