What a difference a year makes
September 2nd, 2010
Last year, my oldest son started school. It didn’t go well. In fact, I’d slate it as one of the more stressful experiences of my life. And, at the time, he wasn’t chuffed to bits either.
A few days before term started, the school PTA rep organised a tea at her house for all the new [...]
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Why isn’t Lourdes a geek?
August 30th, 2010
‘Oh you just wait’, various parents of teenagers have said to me, ‘Just you wait’. I’ve pressed them on what exactly is so bad about teenagers, but haven’t heard anything that sounds too awful. Specific examples have included:Â ’They eat you out of house and home’. Hmmmm, better than two-hour lunch-a-thons where you try in vain [...]
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Meet the Blogadesh brigade
August 26th, 2010
They’re in for a bumpy ride. Three prominent UK mummy bloggers are heading to Bangladesh with Save the Children to see at first-hand what conditions are like for a mother in a poverty-stricken country. I suspect the bloggers will return with change in their hearts and (what else?) panic in their heads about how to create this change. [...]
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7 Secrets of highly organised mamas
August 23rd, 2010
I try, but just can’t cut it when it comes to having an organised household and impeccably turned out children. School-run mornings are a cartoon maelstrom of lost shoes, children eating toast in the car, and getting to school only to realise the vital piece of sports’ kit is at home. I even left a [...]
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Tags: Practical but fabulous
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Would you take advice from Jordan?
August 20th, 2010
I’m not suggesting that anyone would use a magazine such as Heat or Closer as a guide on how to run their life. But just imagine if you decided that the lives depicted within their gossipy pages were something to aspire to. This week it’s all about Jordan’s ‘desperate plan’ to have another baby. Apparently, her marriage [...]
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Tags: The Urchin Rants
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Crumbs, it’s the Beverley Hills Bakery
August 18th, 2010
All in the best possible taste… A greedy angels & urchins blog gets to eat all the pies.
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Upsy Daisy Backstage – Night Garden Live
August 16th, 2010
For four children aged five and under, the cast of In the Night Garden is about as big as it gets in the infant A-lister world. But it’s not just our family who are keen. Upsy Daisy and co have a seriously A-list following of their own, as we discovered when we went backstage at their [...]
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Four Sons versus Four Daughters
August 12th, 2010
Last night, I watched a TV program that’s become an endangered species. Cutting Edge: Four Sons versus Four Daughters was a reality show, but – hold the front page – it didn’t try to humiliate the people it was filming.  What’s more, the people concerned were two middle class families, leading lives of uncomplicated happiness [...]
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Kids Week saves rainy London
August 10th, 2010
Grrrr. No sooner do the summer holidays begin in earnest, than the heavens open. Do the fates not know how difficult it is to keep children occupied when they can’t scamper around London’s green and pleasant parks and commons? We’re currently playing balloon volleyball in the sitting room, with an Ikea soft toy dragon as [...]
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Ultimate dairy-free chocolate cake
August 5th, 2010
It was recently the youngest’s birthday, and the little guy has a dairy intolerance. He also has a massive love of cake and chocolate. So I made him my mother’s oil- rather than butter-based sponge failsafe. It’s a great recipe, easy to whip together, and quantities can be doubled/tripled/whatevered, depending on how many you’ve got [...]
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