Seven wonderful things from the week that was… Granddaddy and Munchkin, playing with a vintage (ie used to be mine) multi-storey carpark/garage…kids really will play with anything (1970s Fisher Price Garage, now worth £70(!), ebay.com) 2. Tete a Tetes in a pot, finally feeling like spring… (£4.50 for three, Market Garden, Cirencester) 3. Lunch outside, even more like…
Month: February 2016
Mothers on Mothering…
This week…baby and family photographer Charlotte Emily Gray Emily Gray is a London-based photographer, specialising in newborn, baby, children and family portraiture. She trained as a fine artist and studied at the Royal College of Art, and says her style is ‘timeless and classic – these are portraits and family photographs that will not look dated in…
Fresh Fish & Hot Coffee
Every time I travel to another country, I get frustrated about our ability to use what is local and to enjoy what is seasonal. In many ways, Oslo was no different. One morning we headed down to the harbour at 7am to buy fish fresh off the boats as they came in. There was a…
Fjords & Vikings
We were in Norway at the weekend, visiting my sister who lives in Oslo… Crikey, it’s a beautiful country. That stereotypical idea one has of the fresh crisp Nordic scenery, the biting cold, the green water and white mountains…. well, it’s a stereotype for a reason. Everywhere you look the land and the scenery – whether…
Sweet, sweet denial…
A few lovely people in my life are expecting their first babies this year… It’s such an incredible time of your life and remembering all those excited, uncertain moment before Munchkin was born feels very bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s so special and so exciting, and you’re so blissfully clueless about it all –…
A little luxury….
Another London jaunt, another gorgeous London hotel… This time The Dorchester. What an institution, what a piece of London history – and deservedly so. There’s always a real danger with the ‘grande dame’ hotels that they’re trading on their name, and in actual fact the service and quality leaves a lot to be desired. Not…
The Weekend Edit
Seven wonderful things from the week that was… Out and about on our trike (SmarTrike, £59,99, Argos) 2. Sleeping beauty (Pyjamas, £5.99, Gap Kids; Amber anklet for teething pain, £35, The Amber Shop, Suffolk 3. Anthropologie loveliness (Cup, £12 , Anthropologie, sold out, similar here) 4. Springtime scented sols… 5. Making friends by the bay tree…
It takes a village…
It’s staggering really that even in the midst of the baby fug, some unassailable truths just come screaming at you. That in those dark, confusing days some things just seem really, really clear. For me, it was about the absolute, primal need to surround myself with other mothers, of all ages. I had never understood…
A Wild Life in Words 