Mummy,” said Belle with a very serious face (as I got to the crucial part of my story). “Don’t be so ridiculous!”
There is nothing funnier than your kids getting cross and throwing your words right b...
Busy can be good. It can mean you’re successful, engaged and fulfilled, but it can also mean you’re overstretched, unfocused and exhausted.
At an on-site seminar this week, we discussed how “busy” is...
I’m writing this from my phone in the dark, sitting next to Belle who’s sleeping fitfully on an air mattress. She usually sleeps on a top bunk, but she has a fever and a throw-up bug — that seems like...
Well it’s our last week of Natural Kids camp and by the time you read this, we will have started our final day.
It’s been amazing and we’ve had hilarious and fantastic kids, but I’m ready to go back ...
I’m sitting on the floor during the last few hours of Natural Kids camp.
So far today, the kids have baked banana bread, done Zumba, learnt how to decode the “sugars” part of a food label, listened to...
Back from holiday and down to earth with a bump.
Although no one ever gives you sympathy when you tell them you’re going home to Bermuda, do they? And really, they’re right. We all live where most of ...
I’m somewhere deep in the South of France, hidden away in a falling down château that’s been woven back together with a thread of luxury. The floors are bowed and cracking, the walls are crumbling, bu...
It’s the first week of our holidays and Belle is in danger of turning into a strawberry. They’re in season over here in England and feel so affordable compared to Bermuda.
I went to the poshest of sh...
Three years ago Chloe decided we should sell cookies as a summer project for Open Airways and the SPCA.
It was the year our Holy Crap® cookies were born and she thought the name was so hysterical she...
So, we’re halfway through America’s Cup and just reached the other side of carnival. My newsfeed is packed with photos of people dancing and drinking and boating and drinking … I know there’s a large ...
