Postcards From My Kitchen Table

My three year old daughter is currently obsessed with all things ‘princess’. She pirouettes round the house from dawn to dusk in her Disney Princess dress and synthetic hair extension which she got from Grandpa for Christmas. Tonight as I was trying and failing to extract the dress from her so she could have a…… Continue reading Do you want to be a Princess?

  I managed to successfully dodge my youngest’s 5.45am wake-up this morning.  Still pretending to be asleep at almost 8am, the sound of the chaos from round the kitchen table (were they limbo dancing?!) was interrupted by that most beautiful and magical of winter countryside noises – the call of migrating geese. Like a child on…… Continue reading Fabulously Feral – a countryside childhood