Is anyone else really feeling the winter this year? I’m normally a winter lover; snuggling up with a hot choc in front of the fire is my idea of bliss, but even I’m flagging by now and fantasising about packing…
I’m a stay at home mum. By choice. I consider myself very fortunate (not lucky as we’ve both worked hard to get where we are) to be able to afford to not go to work, as my husband has a…
Sunday just gone Adam and I attended a day long course at The School of Artisan Food at the Welbeck Estate. I bought the course as a gift for Adam and cheekily asked if I could come along too to…
Every year the Brady family Christmas continues to takes shape. By this I mean that new rituals are added in, lots of old ones keep going, some are dropped (sorry Elf on the Shelf, you are now just Elf Who…
So I have had these feelings for a long time, but I keep ignoring them. In a nutshell, I want to live better. By ‘better’, I mean I want to feel good about my place in the world; that I’m…
So I disappeared during half-term – and not just from social media – we went to Spain, where we are lucky enough to have a family holiday home to take advantage of. My in law’s rural finca is an hour…
Two weeks ago I told you guys that we had decided to home educate. I have some more news: this morning I took the kids back into school. It’s OK, I won’t be offended if you laugh. I’ve laughed too…
It’s 14.56pm on a Monday and normally about now I would start thinking about the fact that I have to pick up the kids. Except today they are already here. It’s not half-term (well, it is for some, but ours…
This is and always will be a recipe blog. But once in a while, when we visit a really fab foodie place I will share it with you. A couple of weeks ago, we went to Lyon for Adam’s 40th.…
Way back when, pre kids, we used to go on mini-breaks fairly regularly. Normally in the winter, around late November. Mostly to a cottage but sometimes to a hotel. The idea was to go on blustery hikes during the day,…