City Living, Country Life – the best of both worlds
Charting life, loves and potty training with two small boys and finding my way through parenting, without parents.
I am stubborn to a fault. I will dig my heels in waaaaay past the point I remembered why I'd made a particular standpoint, simply because I hate admitting defeat (read: I'm wrong). However after 4 years of being 100% 'one and done' after the birth of our first son,…
A round up from the archives of my most popular Autumn recipes and posts.
After a decade of yearning for a 4-legged member of the family, last week Maya arrived and what a week it's been... here's our adoption story, through the Wild at Heart Foundation
Am I the only parent who never has any idea what to do with the mountain of drawings, collages and Very Important Bits of Paper that seem to spew out of their children? Now I do.
My review of the eco-friendly, award-winning Ecoegg laundry mineral detergent, that's fab for allergy-prone, super sensitive skin.
As a mother of two boys, some stats that pinged into my inbox today really struck a chord. In the UK, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) the largest disparity in gender performance in schools is reading.
This might be a timely post for readers waving their littlies off to school in September. Gird your loins, people. The eldest, Dante, had been at nursery for 3 years, so I presumed moving next door into the big school with all his friends wouldn't be too much of a…
So the pox is upon us. What’s weird is we thought we’d escaped it. There was an outbreak at school before half term, but it took the 5yo a full 10 days to break out. And break out he did (sorry for the generic pic but taking snaps of him…
Well, my plan to revive the blog went well didn’t it?! 12 months of nada. What can I say, life happened. I feel sporadically guilty that I should be sharing said life, but then well, life happens again. And I don’t. Our hectic life is still happily nomadic; countrybebe is…
So, we’re off back over the channel to France this week to meet the builders and get some more renovation plans scheduled for the summer (namely some more bathrooms, the house currently has an 11 bedroom: 1 bathroom ratio!). We are flitting back and forward every six weeks at the…
Breastfeeding – is there a more divisive parenting topic?! Well, here goes. I’m nailing my colours to the mast. I love breastfeeding. Hands down my favourite thing about motherhood thus far. Why? Because after two really hard labours ending in emergency c-sections (and a lot of tears), it helped me…
Long time no see huh? Where to begin…. I’ve been umming and ahhing about how to ‘relaunch’ Countryfille. But before I move forward, I can’t launch back into waffling posts on make-up and my favourite cake recipe without detailing my near 2-year hiatus, so let me fill you in… Since…