Both ends
My husband (yep, he’s the one who doesn’t appear on my icon thingy) has complained about my blog. He doesn’t READ it, you understand. This…
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Water, water everywhere
It’s raining outside and my kids have asked lots of questions about water in its many forms – from clouds, to tears, to, um, sewage…
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The longest day – part 4
My boss asked me yesterday ‘How are you even alive?’ He’d spent a week with three kids. If the bedtime blog didn’t act as contraception,…
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Some matters of law and order
This is my kids’ attempt to unravel the dark mysteries of crime, law and order. Crime and criminals are in equal parts scary and intriguing…
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Another random selection
A random bunch of questions (and a couple of answers) from B1 and LG. Me: Why didn’t you eat your fishcakes, B1? B1 age 9:…
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The best kids’ books from todders to tweens
I love reading. I love reading myself, I love reading to my kids and they (and their friends!) love listening to me read. I’m pleased…
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A few burning issues from a 4 year old
Some burning issues and important questions on life, death and everything in between from my daughter when she was 4 1/4. How does people’s hair…
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The bed time marathon
My kids are not babies. Far from it. At 10, and entering his final year at primary school, my eldest is more tween than toddler,…
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The joys of fussy eaters
‘Daddy, I don’t much like food from fields’ my daughter announced at the table yesterday. And what poisonous ‘food from fields’ were we trying to…
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Some holiday questions
To celebrate my return from holiday, here are a few of the kids’ best holiday-related questions… If you don’t know Padstow, it’s on an estuary….
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Where does he get it from?!
How do these thoughts enter a 9 year old boy’s head?! Has the school got a big chunk of our database? (What database would that…
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Eyes, glasses, eye tests and sunglasses….
Two of my children wear glasses, so we spend A LOT of time in the optician’s. So much so that all the staff at our…