This week…Kate Starkey, blogger at CheltenhamMaman, and mother of three. Kate Starkey is a Cotswold dweller and mum of three. She recently gave up her full time job in the NHS to setup CheltenhamMaman a website for the mums of Gloucestershire and beyond. My little Munchkins is are… well, I have a nine month old munchkin, the…
Month: November 2016
Super Sophie
Just a really great heroine… We watched The BFG at the weekend. Not only is it one of my favourite books, but it’s also a reminder of how great Roald Dahl was at writing brilliant heroines. Matilda, Sophie, even Miss Honey – all in their different ways clever, kind, thoughtful, brave women. But it is perhaps Sophie…
Stir It Up
The Ultimate Christmas Pudding…. We missed Stir Up Sunday this year – not because we forgot but because, once I’d read through all the recipes and decided on the best, we realised that the fruit needed to soak for at least 24 hours before mixing with the flour, suet and sugar – so Stir Up…
Finding your Festive Spirit
Lovely things to do with big and little people… Take your Friends A Very Cowley Christmas: A lovely festive event at beautiful Cowley Manor, created in conjunction with Space.NK, Harvey Nichols , Whole Foods and Taittinger. There’s the expected Christmas shopping, but also a fashion show, several festive skincare and makeup masterclasses, as well as…
Surviving the moment…
Man, I have really sucked at parenting recently. About three weeks ago, my adorable toddler – a sunny delight to all she met – went to bed as normal. And what woke up the next morning was a screaming, kicking, raging beast that looked at a lot like Munchkin, but in no way at all…
Lest We Forget
“When you go home, tell them of us, And say, that for their tomorrow, we gave our today.” I don’t think there are any more appropriate words for capturing the incredible sacrifice of those who have died in war. These heartbreaking words were written by a local man, John Maxwell Edmonds from Stroud, in 1944. He…
A Wild Life in Words 