Unless I’m feeling especially energetic, this is going to be my last post before Christmas. So I thought I’d make it a bit seasonal and join in Mum’s The Boss’s Christmas Baking Blog Carnival.
At first glance, this recipe doesn’t look very Christmassy, although throwing in a handful of raisins makes it even better and I [...]

This post is inspired by Josie’s Writing Workshop over at her Sleep Is For The Weak blog.

The best piece of advice I have ever been given came to me  in the middle of Wales in 1993. By a guy whose name I can’t even remember.
I was coming to the end of my university course and [...]

You might have noticed my posts have been a little thin on the ground over the last couple of weeks. That’s because my three-month-old son stopped growing at five weeks of age and I’ve been working hard to get him to put on weight.
I’d been breast feeding my baby since birth and all seemed [...]

Becoming a parent for the second time is very different to the first time.
Like all second-timers, we wondered how we could possibly love baby two as much as we loved baby number one.  In the first fifteen months of her life, Little Lindop One had been a lot of hard work – how were we [...]

Thomas William Lindop arrived on 11th August and we are both doing well. I’m taking a break for a few weeks so I can get some rest but will be back as soon as I can. I’m back on Twitter  already (my ID is @HelenLindop if you’d like to follow me) – I can just [...]