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Kids’ Advent Calendar, your tool for staying organised in the pre-Christmas...
The Advent Calendar has to be more than just a little window of chocolates or sweets, right?! The Advent period is generally crazy. The kids have performances- at school, at sport clubs-; us, adults...
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Super easy, beautiful Advent and Christmas table decorations kids can make
Each year the first Sunday of Advent just creeps up on us and I’m frantically trying to make or buy (without breaking the bank) some arrangement of Advent candles to light on our festive table, our...
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Laugh more! The theme of 2018
Over the Christmas holidays we snuggled a lot, ate even more, played and watched movies. It was wonderful to simply be! We had no plans, just let the days come as they did. Spontaneously, we had very...
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How is technology changing family healthcare?
Anyone else hooked on the Netflix series, Black Mirror? The moral dilemmas the series presents are brilliant! Some story-lines are tangible, some less so, but none-the-less the series reflects our...
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Snowmageddon dressing hack for kids (and adults)
Snowmageddon: The weather is treacherous and the UK is so unprepared. As lots of us parents are torn between letting the kids outside to enjoy the snow and ice and keeping them warm, I thought I’d...
View ArticleIs there such a thing as an ideal blogging conference? Thoughts on Flea...
There are so many blogging conferences happening, it’s really hard to pick a good fit. Blog conferences offer workshops, variable level speakers and interesting venues. A conference aimed at bloggers,...
View ArticleBlog Reset at Flea Retreat 2018, Somerset #inpictures
The Flea Retreat … was like no blogging conference I’d been to before. (Well, blogstock came close, since we all camped on site.) It was a refreshing approach to learning for bloggers and vloggers, it...
View ArticleFinding somewhere to live in Uppsala, Sweden
Oh no! We got the dreaded email: our homeowners are returning home. Not totally unexpected, but I was hoping to get to spend another year in this lovely home we are renting now. Instead, we embark on...
View ArticleWe bought a Sailing Boat!
After years of dreaming, years of planning, years of chartering, years of borrowing and a summer of searching, viewing some 15 sailing boats, sea trialling 2. A budget that started with £5,000 and a...
View ArticleHomeless and vagabond in Sweden
As of today, the 3rd of May, we still have nowhere permanent to live from the end of the May. We move out of our lovely rental house, as the owners are returning from their work abroad. Something that...
View ArticleOnePlus 5, what I love about this mobile phone
My dear OnePlus 5, We’ve only been at each other’s side for 6 months, but I’ve truly grown to love you. You came after a summer fling with an iPhone 7S- he was lovely, but you were to make his...
View ArticleDinghy and liferaft options for a 28 foot sailing boat
Even as we signed the papers to buy S/V Mariposa we joked that we now need to get 2 extra boats to go on her: A dinghy and a life raft. However, in all seriousness, we do have some real decisions to...
View ArticleSafety gear on a sailing boat
Safety on board a sailing boat is high priority, especially with kids. In preparation for our summer cruise we’ve been taking stock of our floatation devices and other safety equipment. In the...
View ArticleCan a family of 5 live comfortably in 700 square feet small apartment?
Good news is: we are buying a flat! Read about the ordeal of buying in Sweden The bad news is that it is rather small apartment- a mere 65 square meters or 700 square feet. It’s moving week this...
View ArticleSmall Family Apartment Remodelling- Bedroom to Living- Dining Room
The original bedroom in our new small family apartment will have to acquire a new role: the living room and dining room. You see, our apartment was built in the sixties, for a young couple or perhaps...
View ArticleWhat Should Kids Do In Case Of A Shooting, The Uppsala Shooting Discussion
There was a shooting today, on May 30th, 2018 at midday in the quiet university town of Uppsala, Sweden’s 4th largest city. It was directly outside Max’s nursery, not far from my older two children’s...
View Article3 Family-Friendly Features for Upgrading Your Home
Having just moved to a small flat, we are immediately considering what to do about upgrading our home. Read more about our tiny family apartment Whatever size apartment you live in there is an aim for...
View ArticleSailing Diary #1- Our First Sail, a Collection of Minor Disasters
For weeks we kept pushing the launch of Mariposa back: boat works, finding a new home and moving took priority. Finally, we only just got our little sailing boat into the water a week after we had...
View ArticleSailing Diary #2- Narrow Rocky Passages & Swedish-style Mooring
After days of being in the depth of the engine compartment, sorting out the engine cooling problems and tackling numerous other tasks on our endless to do list we were “ready” for our next sailing...
View ArticleBoating festival in Southampton
Just add water…The Southampton Boat Show is so much more than a flashy show of beautiful new boats- which there are plenty to see- and new gear, it is a real festival of all things water sport. In...
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