Unexpected Bargain Sofa: the (interim) update

There are some surprising parts of writing a public blog and one of the things I absolutely did not anticipate is that when I wrote about our unexpected bargain sofa – a casual 7 years…

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Looking less tired (with many children and not enough sleep), continued

I’m not saying that having five children has left me looking aged and exhausted.   But coincidentally, in 2020, after having five children in 11 years, I did wonder why my face looked quite…so…troubling.  And in general…

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Still swimming

I used to have blog posts swimming around in my mind all the time. I’d sit down to put a baby to bed and it would all tumble out onto paper (iPhone) in a rush…

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On being warm (hello, middle age)

Look, as soon as I opened the WordPress app and started writing after a 10 month gap, I just knew that the first thing I would have to write about would be this life changing…

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The mum & the …mum

I started writing this blog 5 years ago when we moved from the UK to Vancouver Island with our four children, aged 6 and under. What a five years! Some pretty serious highs, some fairly…

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