A holiday in Devon last week was like holidaying in the tropics. And no awful plane journey.
We managed to fit in beaches, swimming, soft play, sightseeing, good food, way too many ice-creams (can’t fit in my pre-pregnancy jeans I had just got back into before we went away) and adventure parks. We were busy! (Planning [...]

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Although I am a very sad person generally at the moment, on the surface I am, of course, functioning pretty well. But every morning I wake up and for that fraction of a second everything is fine, until I remember that we have a new normal in our family life these days.
So yes, I am [...]

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Last weekend we went to the Music in the Air family day. We sat in the blazing sunshine getting heatstroke and dehydration. We ate smoked salmon sandwiches and strawberries because we were pretending to be posh. Some of our party drank until they were no longer upright.
The children had the most fantastic time. It was [...]

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When Matthew and I got married our wedding could have come straight out of Four Weddings and a Funeral – country church, marquee in the garden, lots of toffs in morning suits, drunken speeches and degenerate behaviour – but we wanted to make our first dance a bit different so we sidestepped the cheesy lovesongs [...]

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Yesterday we ventured to church for a family baptism. The church was full of children, pretty much all of whom were well behaved throughout the thirty minute service. Except the row in front of me where Trouble lurked behind every word the vicar said. And yes, my eldest two might have been [...]

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England in the summer is surely one of the loveliest places on Earth. The sun is shining, the sound of distant mowers and the smell of freshly cut grass are ever-present, the sense of barbecue all around. Children play noisily in the distant park, their voices carried on the gentle breezes.
We are [...]

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