Whenever I go on a walk with my children, they’re interested in adventures and have simply ignored me when I stop to ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ about some spectacular view. Now that they’re a bit older – Luce and Theo are eight year old twins – they’re finally beginning to appreciate views. We went for a coastal […]
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This time last year we had just moved into our house which meant we were rather busy. Now we’re settled I can pay attention to what April flowers are showing up in our garden. That is if they’re not all trampled by the pheasants who’ve been having a regular nosy around our flower beds. Last weekend
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Sometimes there are those fleeting moments of time that will stay with you. A whisper that is an echo that never stops. Now they are young but one day they will follow their own paths. You try and guide them as well as you can. Already they’re learning to march forward. They are only eight but
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My mother is American so I grew up with banana bread. Likewise I’ve been baking banana bread for my twins since they were little. I’m not sure why it’s sometimes called banana loaf here in the UK. Neither do I know why it’s always described as a bread rather than a cake. But I do
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I spent a couple of days with Luce and Theo on the East Sussex coast this past week. It was really a spur of the moment ‘let’s go and be by the seaside.’ One afternoon we headed for Cuckmere Haven where you have a perfect view of the chalk cliffs of The Seven Sisters. I actually
This week my twins were thrilled by the experience of bottle feeding some baby lambs. Usually I’m the one in our family that gets rather excited by the sight of baby lambs in the English countryside. It just gives me that spring feeling and makes me think they just look right “In England’s green and pleasant
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