August is Roger Hargreaves Month here at Mini Bookworms. We have a linky open for all Roger Hargreves related blog posts and Pinterest links below. You can add anything relevant from craft, cookery, photo, review and written posts to Pinterest pin links – so dive in and let’s celebrate the wonderful Roger Hargreaves! Like this?Read [...]
I’ve been writing this blog for over a year now. To be honest I’m very surprised with myself that I’ve kept it going this long, especially after my previous blogs fizzled out very quickly. The difference this time is that instead of just writing to myself I’ve discovered that there is a whole world of [...]
We know all too well that there are ‘bad apples’ in most walks of life, as in most professions and the medical profession is not excluded from this. It should be, but then sometimes I have the feeling that we treat doctors in a similar way to how we treat our England Team ( of [...]
Am I the only one that becomes a teenager again when they visit their parents? I kept feeling as though my mother should be the one looking after Lady F. I have a child? She’s my daughter? I’m not old enough, surely? I thought I got over this pinching oneself stage when Lady F was [...]
Since I’ve been pregnant and telling people I am having a doula this time round I’ve been asked time and time again what one is, especially by Cypriots who have mostly never heard of them. I decided the best person to explain is the lovely lady herself so I invited her to explain, and share [...]
Recently the cover of Time Magazine featured a mother breastfeeding her almost-four-year-old son. The headline screamed “Are You Mom Enough?” and was the introduction to an article about Attachment Parenting. Yeah okay, the cover was controversial, but what annoys me most are all these new parenting methods which put extra pressure on mothers who don’t [...]
Apologies I think I ought to apologize to someone for something! First things first though! This blog post was partly inspired by the great Claire @ministryofmum and her great post whatever works parenting As you might have read on my blog earlier on, we are in the process of trying to secure a new house [...]
Our neighbours at the House With No Name popped across the field to say hello yesterday and told us they’d been watching the Games avidly. “What did you think of the opening ceremony?” my daughter asked them, wondering what on earth they’d made of Mr Bean, Mary Poppins, the Queen apparently parachuting out of a [...]
Last week I may have mentioned how one post-natal Mum embarrassed herself mightily due to the factor I like to call “nappy brain.” Blame it on hormones, tiredness, or the aging process, it seems there are a large amount of Mums with nappy brain. Take a look at these ladies if you don’t believe me! [...]
My whole family are so excited about the Olympics, so this week we are going to use that excitement to encourage and nurture writing in our children. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Frugal and Fun
I have never seen such beautiful horses. Of course they’re all beautiful in their own way but these are a cut above – toned, muscled, immaculate and majestic sports powerhouses that effortlessly glided around the Greenwich arena. Yes, Dotty and I were lucky enough to be at the dressage on Sunday and boy, was it [...]
I have no idea how to start this blog other than to say “WOW”. That is the only description I can give to our day at the Olympics on Sunday. From start to finish everything ran like clockwork, the trains were all on time, we all got seats and everyone was so happy. Like this?Read [...]
I wrote a post last week with tips on how to speed up cleaning, and it was really popular. So this week, I thought I’d include some speed-cleaning tips specifically for the kitchen. The trouble with kitchens is that they’re in constant use and staying on top of the mess is the only way to [...]
I recently had a dear friend ask me for some suggestions for helping her son recognize the letters of the alphabet. I proceeded to write a lengthy email with all my best ideas and then thought, hey, I just wrote a blog post! So, here are my thoughts about teaching your child his letters. Like [...]
There was one point where I would’ve loved to compete in the Olympics; Olympic medals were something to look to. Unfortunately by the time I started getting near good in my age range depression hit and sport fell by the wayside. I have the highest respect for Lizzie Armitstead and Rebecca Adlington; their medals are [...]
Every year I aim to be more organised, to start the holidays without a backlog of work, maybe even get ahead of myself and to give the children an idyllic break with loads of happy memories not involving the TV or computer games. Unfortunately it never quite works out like that and I feel terribly [...]
When my son first became interested in numbers and counting, I quickly jumped into teacher mode and created a “Math Exploration Box” which he could explore on his own or we could work on together. With young children, the most important teaching tool is the world around them. Seeing numbers around them and counting things [...]
Last Saturday saw our traditional welcome to the holidays; pancake breakfast. I would like to write we carried on in that image of complete family harmony unfortunately that would be a bit of a whopper!! Now a few hot and painful days later, we are more in the swing of the holidays, caught up on [...]
One year ago, First Daughter was leaving. She had decided to go back to Switzerland to live with her Dad. She was not happy here in Germany, and our relationship was not brilliant, to say the least. It was incredibly hard to let her go, I was not prepared for my child to spread her [...]
Summer time fun Like this?Read more… Recommended by The diary of a 21st century mummy
