I love camping. I particularly loved our first experience of wild camping last summer beside the sea. But I also love glamping – all the joys of camping life but with a real bed! We first went glamping when my daughter was two months old (at Big Sands in Gairloch) and over the years we’ve […]
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Murton Farm Nature Reserve
When you think of Murton Trust you’ll most probably think of the lovely farm and its animals, birds and children’s activities. But you might not realise that it also has an extensive nature reserve that is free to explore. We have visited the farm many times before but a few weeks ago we walked around the […]
The Move
Recently your world has changed – tipped upside down, then rearranged. Same room but not. Same cot but different ceiling overhead. Same things but in a different space. Confused, you stared – where is this place? The house we left was our first home. You’ll have no memories of the farm next door, the […]
A Christmas Star
You fell asleep on me tonight – curled your tired little body into my arms, and with head heavy on my shoulder, nodded off to Slumber-land. A string of tiny snores the outcome of the 12 hours before. Only 8 weeks old last Christmas Day, this was the first Noel you were aware that something […]
Turning one
It has been almost two months since I wrote anything here and as time has cantered by, you have waddled out of your first year and into toddler-hood. You have been walking since the end of September but only last week decided it was time to let go of our fingers and the couch, and […]
Change is in the air
You are 11 months old today. It seems unreal to me, as if the days have suddenly been picked up and carried away on the wind. It’s that time of year when change is hanging in the air; when 5.45am feels so much earlier than it did a few months ago, when the temperature drops, […]
The world at 10 months
Your world at ten months old… Not crawling yet, nor walking, but always on the move somehow. Climbing, clambering, over knees, pulling up onto feet desperate to be standing now. Reluctantly try rocking onto forearms from seated pose and oh so close! but not yet there. (It won’t be long). Days filled with play and […]
30th June
The 30th June is special for your father and I – it is the date we were married. You were part of our Big Day last year, wrapped up inside me (most probably squished uncomfortably by my wedding dress); kicking my hand through the wedding ceremony; hearing our declarations of love, our promises, our speeches, our […]
Light and laughter
You are 8 months old today. You are very much a little boy now; you wave at people, you squeal with laughter when we tickle you, you wear tartan flannel pyjamas to bed, you hand things to me and then beam happily when I say ‘ta’. You bob up and down when you hear music […]
Past, present and future
You are of the I-generation. You have arrived into a world of I-pads and I-phones. Our phones are not just phones – they are cameras, navigation devices, calendars, calculators and video cameras, with the internet there at our fingertips. We have tablets, and laptops that turn into tablets. We store files in a Cloud. We […]