Archive | July, 2012

Whatever Works Parenting

31 July

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

31 July

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 [...]

View of the Olympics from France – and David Walliams’s new book

31 July

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 [...]

Olympic Medals

31 July

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 [...]