The beautiful, funny & unsightly truths about raising 3 year old twins & an 8 year old singleton… with one on the way!
Looking for childcare was a complex enough subject before Covid-19 but now, amidst social distancing and a gradually easing lockdown, childcare options are vastly complicated. There are however, tools available to make it easier. My son used to go to a nursery and switched almost a year ago to a pre-school, for a number of […]
The UK has been on “lockdown” to protect it’s citizens from Covid-19 (caused by Coronavirus) for over a week now. My family have been in isolation for much longer. For us, week 3 is drawing to a close (week 4 for Bear). Let me explain… A Cough and a Fever Four weeks ago, Bear was […]
Heading into further education as an adult? Here are 4 things you’re going to need to make it as a student… University, or college wasn’t always a viable option for those of us who left school many moons ago. Whether it was because we wanted to head straight into the world of work and start […]
In an era of mobile phones, tablets, fitbits, smart watches and a whole world of technology, how do you allow your children access to these things, whilst maintaining their safety? When you give a child their first mobile phone, do you just blindly trust that they will use it responsibly or do you use parental […]
The grammar school entrance exam… Hindsight If I had known a year ago, the things I know now, things would be different; but as parents we live and learn. If I had known, just how badly my 10 year old would want to get into grammar school… If I had known, how tough the grammar […]
I was recently reminded that I’ve not yet blogged Bunny’s grammar test results! The truth is, I don’t actually know how well she did. I hadn’t realised that when your child sits the grammar school entrance exam (also known as the 11+), you never actually find out their test results. You aren’t given […]
Bunny would like to go to Grammar school and I wrote once before about how we unfortunately missed the application deadline for the initial grammar school entrance exam. We were unsure how likely we were to be successful in getting Bunny accepted for the late entrance test. When I phoned Gloucestershire County Council and spoke […]
Many of the local primary schools (both public and private) send their best cross country runners to compete in a cross country race, four times a year and the course alternates between three of the private schools. Bunny has represented her school in cross country four times now and one of the inter school races […]
World Book Day 2018 was actually on Thursday 1st March 2018, but due to Storm Emma giving half the country a few snow days, our school postponed it to today. I unfortunately have lacked in spare time and creativity lately, so instead of whipping up a homemade masterpiece, we bought costumes for the girls. […]
At school, the twins have been learning about fairytales, with a particular focus on The Gingerbread Man. In the last week of term, they celebrated all they’d been learning, with a “Gingerbread Party”. We received handwritten invitations from the twins and they were excited about it all week. When we arrived at the gingerbread party, […]