Three simple recipes for making use of all the gorgeous wild garlic around at the moment… If you’re lucky enough to live near some woods and can get out for a walk, the wild garlic is glorious at the moment. The sweet, heady scent of it takes me right back to boarding school – it…
Author: CountryMunchkin
Easy Easter Brownies
I absolutely love these brownies. They’re foolproof to make, great for cooking with kids, but mostly they’re the perfect thing for using up leftover Easter eggs. We always have hundreds of rubbish quality chocolate eggs leftover after Easter, and there’s no way we can all get through them, even if I was happy for the…
The Last Baby
I never thought, as Monty emerged, tiny and perfect, into the world that it would be the last time I met one of my babies for the very first time. The last real surprise in life, the last time I discovered who that tiny person was that I’d carried and held and loved and kept warm for all those months. That first moment you hold them in your arms, your whole life expanding, shifting around you. The shape of your family, instantly changed forever.
Five Cookbooks Everyone Should Own
How do you cook? I am an instinctive cook, rather than a precise one. I’m all about opening the fridge, grabbing some leftovers, throwing it together and seeing how it turns out. This creative, slapdash approach makes me a dreadful baker, but an overall good cook. I love food, I love flavour, I love colour…
Some things I learnt in therapy….
I finished my last therapy session this morning. The sun was shining, I felt bright and hopeful. And filled with gratitude for all I have learnt and how far I have come. It is a big – huge – step forward. I have essentially been in therapy since the end of August, but I only…
The Important Thing About Valentine’s Day….
We were discussing Valentine’s Day with some friends at the weekend – one of whom insisted that no-one over the age of 25 celebrates it anymore. And she’s probably not wrong. It seems like something people with more time – and no children – get to enjoy. When R and I first met – about ten…
Art for the Soul
Art for therapy isn’t a new concept – it’s been used for decades to help people examine psychological and emotional issues in a way that feels safe, organic and natural. Because things like drawing, painting, collage and colouring are repetitive and creative by nature, they allow us to work at something on a simple level that employs …
Mothers on Multiples
Motherhood, with twins or triplets…. “Being a twin mama is… next level mothering.” This month: Dr Rachel Eyre Rachel is a breast cancer research scientist and mum to twins, plus one. She lives in Manchester with fellow scientist James, and their children Sam, Jack and Meg. She writes about life with twins, plus one, her…
Autumn Life
It was so beautiful yesterday when we went exploring around the village, and beyond, that I couldn’t stop taking photos… It’s taken us a while to be able to go for long walks – we haven’t seemed to be able to work out a solution to us wanting an off-road, ‘proper’ walk through the woods…
A Wild Life in Words 