Our most recent family day out took us to the Forestry Commission’s Bedgebury Forest in Kent. Our main aim – to find Stick Man, a character our toddler finds particularly hilarious in the film of The Gruffalo’s Child, when there is literally one second of footage involving him falling over in the snow, which has… Continue reading On the trail of Stick Man
Bad alliteration alert, sorry, but in other news we had a lovely time in Mid Wales recently. We hired a cottage with Sykes Cottages off the beaten track in a village called Abbey-Cwm-Hir, away from all the distractions of modern life and got back to nature. The winding roads led to my favourite husband quote… Continue reading Walking and wildlife in wet but warmish Wales
We had a lovely day out at Bodiam Castle last weekend with a dash of neurotic husband and hyperactive toddler thrown in. What I always relish is for the adult non-driver in the family to behave like a nervous wreck if you go above 30 in a 60 zone on country roads, pointing out possible… Continue reading Bedlam at Bodiam
A few weeks ago I was able to meet up with a friend of mine who is originally from Germany, to help me decipher the letter my GP surgery received from the hospital after I had my first miscarriage in Frankfurt. We were revisiting it as now I am on my third miscarriage, the doc… Continue reading Learning from a three-year-old
We had a day out to a theme park this weekend. It was planned for a while but an impromptu piss up at the local pub meant that husband talked shit for an hour and a half on the journey there whilst also trying not to be sick and playing inappropriate hip hop on the… Continue reading Hungover husband plus theme park and toddler = bickerfest
My Beautiful Diary of the Amazingly Mundane 