I may be finally giving up on my productivity ideals, after four years of living with the time hoovers that are children. It’s just not working – the weekly review…
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Tag: life with small children
Time has vanished. It used to be that I had pockets of time that I could use for life admin, personal pursuits and other things like that which now are…
Another cliché I’ve been contemplating lately, apart from ‘the past is a foreign country’, is ‘wherever you go, there you are’. Mainly in the context that our children make life…
My older son lets his imagination loose at bedtime and often calls us back in to tell us what he has seen or heard in the dark. Once he said…
I’ve not been feeling in brilliant health lately. Truthfully, I feel old – exercise is taxing, I get out of breath, I always feel tired and maintaining a non-slouching posture…
My new strategy of abandoning books that aren’t doing it for me is having the desired effect – reading more. I’m still reading at a pace that would have shocked…
I’ve had a bit of a bittersweet realisation over the summer with the difficulty in finding a house to buy. I think London and I have grown apart. There are…
We have hit some kind of golden days with the two little boys. I wouldn’t say they’re easy to look after, but it’s a day-and-night situation to about two years…
We had some ambitious weekend plans – on Saturday we were going to spend most of the day at a kid birthday party our friends were hosting on the other…
The headings are inspired by our failed house survey, where the surveyor explained that he usually orders his remarks ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’, but in our case…