We found out we were going to Camp bestival only 2 weeks before it started. Eeek, I thought I must write lists, I must plan this is huge!Due to the short notice my husband was unable to come due to his work schedule so I asked my friend Christina to come along with me and the kids. We left at 6.30am on the Thursday morning and it took 6 hours to get to Lulworth. Getting on site was pretty painless…
Matilda is a very strong willed, independent 3 year old. On a daily basis she tell me “I’m a big girl mummy” and is always insistent she can do anything and everything. This is not a bad thing. I like the fact she has her own mind but sometimes when shopping and in busy places I could do with her being close to me. Not striding off at her own pace to do her own thing. This is where the…
Nozstock 2018 – A reminder of what made me fall in love with festivals 25 years ago. A 30 minutes drive is all it is for us to get to Nozstock, so close we can almost hear it. We are lucky to live in Herefordshire and it does not surprise me that a festival in the Shires has grown from a family party 20 years ago to a large successful festival. I last came with Dylan to Nozstock in 2014. Working at other…
I absolutely love rainbows to the point that I am looking at designs for rainbow tattoos. I have always found them facinating and quite beautiful. It seems my love of rainbows has been passed onto Matilda and I’m not surprised as she is my rainbow baby, a name for a child that arrives after losing a child. A rainbow follows after a storm and gives hope of things getting better and if Matilda could be summed up then that’s absolutely…
We have had a birthday boy in the house this month. I honestly do not remember him being so excited about a birthday before. I also do not remember ever struggling so much to come up with birthday present ideas before either. All he wanted was a venus fly trap. We managed to get that sorted but then what else? He loves to be outside and has become more and more involved in creating all sorts of homes for different…