It turns out that our youngest child is really, really keen on gardening. Over the last few weeks he has patiently and gently planted seed after seed, lovingly patted them into place and given then a big, slightly overzealous, daily glug of water. Boy 2 is a loud, confident, cheeky, boisterous soul, who is at …
Finally, it feels like Spring is here. The weather is warmer, we have been virus free for at least two weeks, and our biggest boy’s blood tests came back clear last week. Hurray! He’s still a bit pale and sometimes feels a bit tired, and when I asked the doctor what she would recommend to …
I’m feeling a bit lazy on the writing front at the moment and there seems little time for it, with a lot going on in retro wife towers. Mike has been very busy organising a huge and very exciting conference, here in our fine city of Bath. He has also been making the final edits to …
I’ve been a bit poorly over the last couple of days with a rotten stomach bug. I’m hopeless at being poorly and spent much of yesterday feeling ill and bored in bed. I felt too rubbish to do anything but felt frustrated as I have so much to be getting on with at the minute. …
The children were re-installed in nursery and school yesterday after a long half term break of 11 days! It was very lovely to be sans children for a few hours and I had a nice walk from school to my local cafe (aka Kerry & Guy’s kitchen) and enjoyed a good chat accompanied by muffins …
I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago and somehow never seemed to get around to posting it…anyway, it seems a shame to bin it, so here it is. I promise to write more soon. It’s been a tiring few weeks at retro wife towers. The children have been really very poorly with horrid, horrid flu bugs which …
I sometimes feel a bit ‘meh’ in January. It’s mainly a cold, miserable month, with no end in sight to winter, and a bit of a financial and emotional come down after the loveliness and excess of December. But, after an incredibly difficult December, I have arrived here in January feeling excited and optimistic about the …
When our eldest boy was a baby, I found a lovely battered old (1941) copy of one of my favourite childhood books – AA Milne’s ‘Now we are six’. I bought it and put it away for when our tiny baby turned six. Six! – for goodness sakes, he was probably only about six months …
We really loved spending half term at home in October. Normally we use the week off school to travel and see relatives – my parents live 5.5hrs away, so travelling to see them for just a weekend during term time is out of the question. Half term always provides a good chunk of time to …
My youngest boy is very keen on birthday parties. He loves the dancing, the games, and he especially loves the cake. Last year we had a great hungry caterpillar party, which we did on a budget, and with a zero plastic into landfill policy. I wanted to do something along the same lines this year. …
We have been keeping chickens for a couple of years now after Mike bought me a  lovely purple eglu, with two lovely laying ladies; Barbara & Margot They have brought us lots of laughs, plenty of eggs, and have been so very easy to look after. In the winter months, they have free range of …
This time three years ago I was standing in the same room as I am sitting typing in now. I was talking on the phone to a midwife about my waters breaking. My lovely boy Rohan had decided to put in an early appearance, just as his beautiful big brother Dan had done before him. …