A sunny day amidst the best of England’s green and pleasant land… The Rococo Gardens in Painswick were designed in the 1740s as a flamboyant pleasure garden for entertaining guests. The beautiful, quirky setting has all the charm of an English country garden, coupled with some dramatic flourishes and intriguing buildings. With a flower garden, vegetable garden, a pond,…
Month: May 2016
Mothers on Mothering
This week…Kerstin Kühn, LA-based freelance journalist, founder of Little Foodie Club and mother of one. Kerstin is a freelance food and travel writer, who left London in 2013 and moved to Los Angeles, where she edits luxury lifestyle guide Urbanologie, writes for a number of magazines on the California food scene and recently launched a baby food delivery startup called…
Taking a Different Approach to Tantrums….
Munchkin will be two in a few weeks, and there’s been a definite shift in the last few months from a developing baby who is learning about the world around her, to a little person who is starting to understand the impact she can have on the world around her. Her sense of discovery and development is…
Desert Island Distractions…
Since having a baby and moving to the country, I’m in the car an awful lot. And I’m also in the kitchen – cleaning, washing, cooking, feeding – an awful lot too. And it’s nice to have some company while going about the (mostly) mundane day-to-day jobs. It makes you feel less lonely, it gives you something to…
Foraging in the Woods
We are obviously getting more and more into our local and home-grown produce, and I love the point in every year as we plan what we will grow in our garden. Providing, growing and picking your own food feels like such an important thing in this age of mass consumerism and the amount of waste we’re…
Hide & Seek…
Or, 24 things I have had to hide from my toddler today… So, we are at the Beady Little Eyes phase of toddlerdom at the moment. Munchkin wants everything all the time, even at the most inopportune moment, naturally – and has developed a razor-sharp sniper vision for spotting some teeny-weeny corner of something she simply-must-have-right-now-absolutely-now-or-the-whole-world-will-implode….
Mothers on Mothering
This week…Stephanie Withers, freelance writer and contributing editor at Chalk Kids, and mother of two. Stephanie Withers is a freelance writer and contributing editor of Chalk Kids, a lifestyle blog for style conscious families. My little Munchkin/s is/are… Finlay (2 1/2) and Parker (seven months) No-one ever tells you that… the terrible two’s can start a year early….
A Wild Life in Words 