rain, rain, go away…

More autumn lamenting. When I sat down this morning to do some writing, I had intended to get out and about and get the kids in the lovely crisp autumn morning as soon as I was done. As time went on, the clouds changed colour to an ominous dark grey and the inevitable happened. Continue reading

friday focus – Retro Kids

I always thought that I was a pretty savvy shopper. Not in a financial sense, more in a ‘oh, if you need THAT, then you’ll need to go HERE’ sense. Kind of also like my sister, who is a designer – as soon as she saw a long lens fuzzy paparazzi picture of Kim Kardashian’s wedding dress, she IMMEDIATELY went “oh, that’s Givenchy.” And she was right (and that’s why she’s bloody great at what she does).
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find me… boys’ leggings

Buoyed by the success of my last ‘find me a…’ post, I asked my followers on here and on Facebook if there was anyone else who needed my clothes finding ninja skillz! And my dear friend Fran is my next, hopefully happy, customer 🙂 Continue reading

outfit of the day – choo choo charlie

So, of course you remember my post from last week, where I outed myself as a bit of a clothes and outfit finding ninja, and found my lovely friend and her two sons a selection of hoodies? Yes? Continue reading

fantastic mr fox

Animal prints are *everywhere* this autumn/winter season. They have been for a couple of years, but there seems to have been an explosion of them recently. This can be good (i.e. on kids, it’s mega cute) but this has been bad (i.e. on adult christmas style jumpers – these are Never Good and Not Cute).
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friday focus – Abandon Ship

The Scottish referendum has been {ronburgundyvoice} kind of a big deal {\ronburgundyvoice} in this house. We live in Kent and I am Sarf Lahndan born, but my dear husband is a fierce, proud, and born and bred Scotsman (“pure Scotch beef” as he would say….). Continue reading