Before Li’l Bhaji started school full time, I had loads of plans. I was going to be financially better off as there would be no more nursery fees to pay, and I was going to have so much more extra time for new and exciting projects. Well, the money thing definitely hasn’t panned out. I [...]

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… leaving me in sole charge of the children and I didn’t even get a lousy t-shirt! He also brought home really noisy cable car toys for the kids which ding loudly every time you run them along the floor. We need to have words.

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The ideal: child gets to autonomously review work already done in class. the teacher gets feedback as to how much of the work has been understood. parent feels involved and gets feedback on the topics their child is learning about. The reality: child sits at the dining room table, takes one look at it and [...]

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I’m ill, pity me. The kids kindly brought home a cold on the second day of school and it’s gone right to my sinuses so have had really disturbed sleep for the last 5 nights (although last night wasn’t too bad – only woke up twice – vast improvement). For me, first sign of Autumn [...]

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… what goes through kids’ heads sometimes. I try not to make too many posts along the line of “hey look what cute thing MY child said today”, but I couldn’t resist sharing these two: Akra Jr: “Did dinosaurs stamp on where our house is?” Me: “I don’t know dear, I wasn’t there” Akra Jr: [...]

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Well I say Buckinghamshire, but I don’t think a single trip out from the campsite was inBuckinghamshire – the nice thing about this county is that it is central to a lot of different areas so you have your pick of outings. The other difference about this camping trip was that with the children being [...]

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Guess which muppet ordered 8 punnets of plums instead of 8 plums? So, we in the Naan household are enjoying rather a lot of different plum dishes. I’ve made plum jam for the first time ever (and I was shocked at just how easy it was, actually – I may never buy a commercial jar [...]

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Those of you who are still following the comments on the Mooncup Review I wrote over five years ago (otherwise known as “The post that will not die” … 287 comments and rising even after all this time! Who’d a thunk it), will know that I recently purchased two mooncup pouches from Lovealittle on Etsy.com. [...]

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Yes, this is the obligatory “my youngest started school today” blog post, so if the thought of reading yet another one makes you want to hang yourself or me (you know who you are!) then feel free to skip this. For the minority who were curious as to how we got on (and the majority [...]

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… well the album is finally available on iTunes internationally, anyway. You can get the link from DrHorrible.com. I’ve been having lots of fun singing all the songs and have carefully cut and pasted all the lyrics into the info so I can see them on my iPod, so probably safest not to venture into [...]

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