A few months ago I blogged for Visit London with my top nine things to do in Chiswick. I’m really excited to be part of their new area guides project, and thrilled to share some of the great things about our lovely leafy area of West London. Now that it’s cold and gloomy January I thought […]
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Housework versus blogging – can you have it all and write about it too?
Well that’s it – they’re back. (Back at school of course.) I know that technically this happened last week, but I’ve had barely a chance to register it. The shock of getting back into a school routine has knocked me sideways. After a glorious summer of much playing and hanging out with family, staying […]
Best laid plans of a parent blogger – including a dice with death
I’m sitting writing this in real time in the Cafe Rouge at Kew Bridge – with a gorgeous view of what is one of my favourite views, Strand on the Green. (I must confess that I’m not exactly sure what ‘writing in real time’ means… it just sounds right somehow. It seems to express the fact […]
Sudden sunshine – that was the weekend that was
Bit of a quiet weekend this one. Do you also find that weekends tend to go in phases? We’ll have a few of rushing around and seeing stuff. And then feel like staying in our pyjamas and taking things slower. I’m no good at staying in pyjamas all day though. And a weekend’s not a […]
Netflix, pyjamas and board games – January hibernation
These last couple of weeks I've not been doing much blogging about Chiswick, West London and family things to do. January is firmly for hibernation in my book. Our lives at the weekend and evenings consist of wearing pyjamas as much as possible, playing board games, watching films and boxsets on Netflix, reading and playing […]
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas…
Well the Christmas feeling has being ramping up in the Chiswick Mum household. I wrote recently about how I was trying to reclaim my Christmas mojo and how faking it 'til you make it was the way to go. Since then I have been surrounding myself in some of the trappings and frippery of Christmas, […]
Settling into winter – from flexible working to date nights
I’m writing this in Maison Blanc, nestled in the window, watching people bustling through the rain down the street. Fridays are my day for catching up on blogging and having a bit of respite from the hamster wheel that is life-work-parenthood-blogging. As you know if you read my blog regularly, I work a five day […]
That was the Chiswick week that was – changing seasons and a creative life with children
Well another week has gone by and now we seem to be firmly in winter. I know that winter doesn't officially start until 1 December (according to the Met Office). But it does feel like winter doesn't it? The cat has taken to sleeping in our bedroom again, and the other day I woke to […]
That was my Chiswick week that was
I created this blog to capture the small moments…so that when it all seems to have gone in the blink of an eye, I can look back and see that a life well lived isn't full of 'whizz bang big ticket' things, but of tiny seconds that together make up a family life. So here […]
Four things I learnt last week
I started writing this on Monday, and started off by saying that I was glad that I'd stuck to getting these round ups out on a Monday. As I write this sentence it's already Thursday! And as I hit publish, it's Friday! The week has slipped by in a glimmer of work, play and domesticity. […]