Things have been awfully quiet, here on Life With Gusto. That’s because real life has been a bit hectic. Hectic and befuddling and tiring...

1. You have to stay somewhere as good or better than home. My very clever friend Other Jess once told me this, and I think she is right....

We have just spent seven days on a dude ranch in southern Colorado with my extended family on my mother’s side. We do this every couple...

Oh for the days when the in-seat phone was all the entertainment she needed. In about four hours we are heading to the airport to fly for...

Is it just the hair? On Play School Humpty’s hair is usually styled with a centre part, but the toy’s hair just wants to go to one side....

Wild scenes: May Blossom out of control in the moshpit. Tip her over, pour her out. We’ve just returned from the Play School Concert. If...

This pregnancy I have been plagued with insomnia, which is not something I have ever experienced before. I was the kid who could fall...

Um, no. I haven’t got a good reason. I was just off, you know, living my life and trying to keep warm. Oh, and GROWING A HUMAN, too,...

A mother, on the other hand, in my humble experience of less than two years, is more like the shell of a person. The stretched out, faded...

May Blossom searching for the truth. Right now if you were to ask May Blossom to state, for the benefit of the tape, her full name, she...

1. When she walks down steps, May Blossom has taken to sometimes refusing the proffered hand of her father or me and instead holds her...

‘Poo.’ She declared. Then, in case I was in any doubt of what she was referring to, she pointed to the bean with her other hand and said...

Better a terrible photo than none at all, that’s what I always say. I couldn’t put my spoon down long enough to take a photo with two...

Everytime a child says “I don’t believe in fairies” there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan...

My brain today, interior. Coincidentally, also an exhibit of white Lego at the Miro Museum, Barcelona. Let’s play a game where I am the...

First prize for The Pun With The Most Elaborate Set-up: H announced this morning that his watch is set to 'Green H mean time'. We’re back...

Here’s the first in a new occasional series in which I will ask myself questions and then reply. I’ll be my own agony aunt. Today’s...

Swimming in an ocean rock pool. I am a bit slow, clearly, but I have finally discovered a place that has all the nice seawater of the...

Last week I was grating a raw beetroot into a pot of soup (this soup, incidentally, which is so delicious I almost ate H’s portion before...

My little family is about to take a little break. Not from each other, but from the city and work, from battling for parking and crowded...