At Christmas my Dad said “I understand why you don’t shop at Tesco, but why not the co-op?”, I was reminded of this last Friday when a friend asked exactly the same question. I’m struggling to find an answer. This journey started nearly a year ago based on the premise that the phrase ethical supermarket [...]

I collected Bertie the Bus, a red VW campervan with black ladybird spots, on Tuesday evening and collected the toddler from my parents’ in him for Wednesday we were going on holiday. The toddler woke late and I woke early on Wednesday morning so by the time we’d finished breakfast we were all packed and [...]

It’s not often that a single day gives enough inspiration for its own blog, but today’s been busy and the toddler and I are excited about what tomorrow brings. I dropped the toddler at preschool and headed straight to Thrapston’s Tuesday market to stock up n fruity snacks for our impending holiday, I also managed [...]

The hand still hasn’t recovered, I can’t extend my fingers far enough to reach the brake lever on my motorbike but I have recovered enough movement in my wrist to be able to rock the throttle. On Thursday it rained so heavily that the roads were like rivers, only someone with a death wish would [...]

This blog has now been over three weeks in the writing, the week before Good Friday I noted that: it been a rollercoaster of a week, this time last week we were setting of on the toddler’s preschool farm trip looking forward to a weekend with friends, old and new, with the first SPACE walk [...]

I thought it was only Daily Mail readers who thought that children were either brought up in multi-coloured families by a single parent spawning brats for housing points or in a nurturing environment by loving couples, one the bread winner the other at home decorating cup cakes with a brood of cheery helpers, but it [...]

When we sent out invites for our house-warming party 2 weeks in advance of last weekend’s BBQ people scoffed at our optimism but on the day we were joined by more than 35 friends and family and while the kids tired themselves out running between the swings, slide and trampoline I busied myself flipping handmade [...]

I do think of the toddler and I are a family but as, for now, we remain a family of two there are things we don’t do very often that we would enjoy if it wasn’t just the two of us. Living in East Northants we have fabulous countryside on our doorstep and whenever friends [...]

Towards the start of this week I blogged that the idea of a week not filled to overflowing with social engagements scared me, now the thought of returning to work tomorrow morning doesn’t exactly fill me with unbridled joy. I have to confess I’m not in a happy place and the week would have felt [...]

I explained in a previous blog that I felt uncomfortable intruding into the lives of others so I think its fair to only briefly report that the new brunette texted a couple of days back to end the relationship – her reasons are hers, the space she inhabits lonely but private and the explanation she [...]