Family Affairs

My cousin, who lives in Canada sent me an email the other day about her experience in London. I thought it was an interesting and appealing historical take on an alternative tourist outlook:-
Here she is with Paddington Bear and her son:-
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“A good writer once said that all his hopes lay in one [...]

Back home. For two minutes. Major drama with my X and kids and although they were meant to be coming with me to see my father who has just completed 20 rounds of radiotherapy – in the end I went on my own because I didn’t feel strong enough for the battle, which [...]

Following on from the highly successful children’s newspaper, Piers Morgan has just launched “First News TV” aiming to fill a much needed gap in the market for older kids. One of their key presenters is Charlie McDonnell who is the Youtube No.1 blogger in the UK.
Interesting to see it’s being launched digitally on the [...]

Here is a blog post from over at Janelle’s which is hilarious:-
why oh why did i even mention it? The Vibrator Incident? ( TVI to which it shall hereafter be referred.) where do i even begin? it seems a quagmire of pitfalls….i cannot win. either way. why didn’t i say perhaps i should write about [...]

We are having a lovely few days in France – I’m with two girlfriends and some of our children. It’s all very peaceful – only the sound of crickets and splashy water can be heard in amongst the sounds of the three of us shouting at our children to stop drowning each other or arguing or the boys getting together to shoot bb guns into the undergrowth and let off fire crackers and all manner of noisy blowy uppy things.

It’s hot. Just gorgeous. We went to watch Bastille Day fireworks yesterday – July the 14th celebrations meant a very buzzy atmosphere everywhere:-

The Budget 2010
This is a guest post from Tamsin, writer over on the UK parenting deals website, PlayPennies.com (http://www.playpennies.com/).
I asked Tamsin if she could share her thoughts on what the new budget will mean for families and she has very kindly sent me over the following very informative information:-
There’s been a lot of [...]

What my daughter is wearing:-

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