50. 50! FIFTY! Blimey, it's getting real now! Anyway, we've had a really special week, and most of it was spent in Retford, celebrating my Dad's retirement and birthday! My Dad is truly the most hard working person I know and to spend so much time with him this week has been wonderful. There was [...]
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Two Tuesday 49
Heya! I'm a bit late with this one, so let's get cracking. We've been to: the park to sample their famous blue ice lollies, St Giles hall for a teddy bears picnic with some children from Sophia's year at school, the shops, the Beyond Monet experience in Liverpool, St Giles, Cheshire Oaks, a picnic at [...]
Our Breastfeeding Journey
As World Breastfeeding Week 2025 has just finished, I find it's time to write a very long overdue blog. Breastfeeding. Beautiful, brutal, bright, bloody, brilliant breastfeeding. My journey began in pregnancy. How would you like to feed? Midwife Carol asked. I'd like to try to breastfeed, if we both can. Why? Thinking back, I must [...]
On her fourth birthday
It appears it's now a tradition, and it's definitely one of my favourite blogs to write. Sophia's birthday blog. Here we are, 10.40pm on 31st July 2025 and we have a four year old! We know so much about her now that it's hard to believe she was once a little blob with all that [...]