Summer holidays are over and we’re preparing for the school run tomorrow morning. I spent a few hours in the kitchen today and whipped up lunchbox treats which I’ve currently hidden [...]
As a friend said recently: the first trimester is like walking through mud. Much like you forget the intensity of labour, you so easily forget the depth of the exhaustion in the first trimester. [...]
Needless to say, we are well and truly out of the school morning routine. Dawdling is our preferred pace of late, peppered with a fair bit of disorganisation. We struggle to get out the [...]
Last night was the hottest night on record since records began. It was 32 degrees at 4am. Essentially we slept in an oven – hot wind forced uselessly around the room by the ceiling fan. [...]
Meal planning is a sanity saver. It’s also a really great way to stick to a budget, calm those afternoon what am I going to cook nerves and significantly lessen your food waste. So why is [...]
“A portrait of my youngest child, once a week, every week, in 2017.” Percy: we’re on the other side of weaning and revelling in settled sleep. I’m so relieved!
I didn’t plan to breastfeed Percy for as long as I have but here we are. I knew that weaning him wasn’t going to be as straight forward as it was with Che and Poet. Percy’s [...]
I’ve been keeping this delightful secret close for a few months now. On our final three days in Bali, three different Balinese women gestured to my belly and asked me about my baby. I [...]
“A portrait of my youngest child, once a week, every week, in 2017.” Percy: he’s literally mourning the fact that he’s been weaned, hence his mood (and his face) has been [...]
I’ve been working as a freelance writer and photographer for over ten years now and I’ve never been without work. For the past six years I’ve been lucky enough to have regular [...]
“A portrait of my youngest child, once a week, every week, in 2016.” Percy: cranky and irritable because it’s time to say goodbye to milky* and he’s not on board. Tough [...]
