This week…Bethany Kitt, midwife and founder of The Bump to Baby Chapter, and mother of three. On maternity leave with her third child, Beth created The Bump to Baby Chapter (with her cousin Kate) to share their wisdom from their experiences as midwives and mothers. They teach antenatal classes with an honest, childbirth no filter…
Month: January 2017
The Five Year Trees
Planting trees to celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary… It was our fifth wedding anniversary just before Christmas. The fifth is ‘wood’ – and we decided to buy each other fruit trees, which we can plant here, and take with us when we move. Hopefully our simple apple and plum trees will be the start of slowly…
Duck & Pheasant
The shooting season is coming to an end, but that didn’t stop R heading out with friends for an early New Year’s shoot last weekend. He’s been shooting several times before, but only with my father and never on his own, so this felt like one of the many necessary country initiations since we moved…
Snow Day
It makes me sad that in nearly three years this is only the second time that Munchkin has seen snow. And certainly the first time it has settled and been worthy of a snowball or two. I worry about global warming and the weather changing and how much wetter and warmer it is. I don’t…
Mothers on Mothering
This week…Antonia Edwards, founder of Little Blue House, and mother of one. Antonia Edwards is the founder of Little Blue House, a home bakery based in Bristol, that supplies cafes, shops and local families with deliciously tasty and healthy snacks for small children. Little Blue House snacks are made using wholesome ingredients without the addition…
Healthy Hens
Making sure your brood is fighting fit… Keeping chickens as healthy as possible is totally worth your while. No-one wants to be dealing with a sick chicken. (Unless you’re like my friend Francesca who takes hers to the vet, because she fancies him….but that’s a whole other story). Sick chickens are miserable chickens, they don’t…
A Newer, Happier Year…?
So, it couldn’t get much worse than 2016 really – in all sorts of ways. From the deaths of almost every famous person I loved – for me, Alan Rickman’s was an especially painful passing – to the horrors of terrorism and war and people running for their lives into an uncertain future. And then there…
A Wild Life in Words 