Just wishing my favourite little pixie a big huge “Happy Birthday”!! She’s 3 already, I can hardly believe it! Cake was our good old reliable – vegan victoria sponge – filled with strawberry jam, lashings of coconut cream, sprinklings of cocoa powder...

Ooops, the lovely ladies who organise the annual Babywearing Ireland conference are going to have to ban me from the raffle next year as I won a splendid new sling this year (I won a sjaltai there last year!), I normally don’t win raffles, so this is...

Our little village is a very windy place, and in winter it’s a very cold windy place, in summer it’s hot & windy, see how we distinguish the seasons? Our back garden has fantastic near-magical clothes-drying powers due to the wind and is great for...

What does it say about my household cleaning habits that whenever I say “Ok, let’s clean up this room”, Littlepixie jumps up excitedly and says “Woo hoo, Who’s coming to visit?” Hmmm…. I do clean, really I do (even when we have no guests due), sort...

Blessed as I am with genetic weak enamel in my back teeth, I do appreciate modern dentistry and all its wonders, but bloody f*$k, I hate fillings! I had to get an old one replaced today and also a new one put in the tooth beneath it, so one whole half...