‘I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.’ – Anne, Anne of Green Gables Like a lot of families this year, we are feeling the cost of living crisis even harder now it’s autumn. With prices shooting up and income going down, trying to manage keeping 7 children with everything they…
Category: Family
Time flies…
The summer holidays seemed to be over in the blink of an eye, and suddenly we had six children going to school! We really should get our own school bus allocated 🤣🤣 But instead it’s a round trip of 26 miles, twice a day 😬 in our BeauBus! Drake’s has undertaken his first days at…
Duckie, You’re Really Quite Lucky!
Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky! ‘Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?’ – Dr Seuss One evening, our very lovely neighbour turns up at our door, completely by surprise, with 2 orphan ducklings who needed some care! She figured we’d know how to look after them… well, no! But although…
Radio Silence
“Let your need guide your behaviour.” – Cheshire Cat, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland I’ve been less active than I’d like on here recently… partly because we took two long weekends in May/June to enjoy our first camping trips of 2023! Our camping trips away were really revitalising – I feel a bit like a reset…
Goodbye, Biggie
Six years ago, we adopted some turkey poults, just a few days old. Sadly, this morning, we found the last one of our original group had died. He was called Biggie and held a very special place in our family. Brock especially developed a close bond with him, and he has been very hard hit…
15 Years Ago Today…
I became a mama 🥰 It has been the very best thing I have ever done, so much so of course, that I went on to have 6 more children! 🤣 I can barely believe my beautiful first born is now 15 years old!! He is now definitely taller than me, even when I’m wearing…
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