To kick off the blogging week, and to give inspiration for when the festive season is over and the dark, cold months stretch ahead, angels & urchins blog talked to author Amanda Egan. Aka the Mummy Misfit, Amanda’s hilarious book about a couple sacrificing luxuries to see their only son Max through private education makes laugh-out-loud reading. [...]

Heard on the Playground is a website from the US, but the humour (or should that be ‘humor’?) crosses the pond pretty well. I particularly liked the examples above and below, and have a son whose mind works in just the same way. For example, when he saw a scan picture of a younger brother [...]