Author Archives: claire

Nappuccino

Run by The Washable Nappy Company, Nappuccino’s are an education in the various types of natural nappies on the market and a great idea! I went along to one of their demonstrations this week in Hackney. The Company is the collective brain of a married couple with twins. They promote a wide variety of nappy […]

Freddie and Mummy Claire at 3 weeks


Mummy Claire & Freddie

A few of you have noticed that there’s no images of Freddie with his mum. You might be wondering why that is… Perhaps she’s got the baby blues or her figure just dropped on the floor after the birth … ? Thankfully, although pregnancy and parenthood brings mental challenges and physical changes (which we’ll no […]

Freddie & Suki

future friends… they will play together!

Buggy persuits

Meeting a destination at a specific hour (OF THE MORNING!) with a baby is no simple task. Freddie and I woke to brave a public demonstration about natural nappies this week - Needing an additional two hours prep time to achieve this goal made getting out of the house something of a military operation. Amazingly […]

Family Ward-Thornton visit


Three natural hazards

It’s been a while since my last post. We’ve been settling into our new life with Freddie and enjoying ourselves in the process. It has to be said, we’ve been helped along enormously by the fact that Freddie is a sleep monster! This guy loves the horizontal lifestyle, waking only to feed on the […]

alice write

Freddie is really cute..
He rox my sox!
I was holding him today and he kept making these funny faces, his face went bright red!
If you don’t think Freddie’s cute, get out of this world coz he IS cute!!!
people who dont think freddies cute, go away NOW
from alice…………………………………………………………..friend of freddie!!!! hehe!!!!! he likes me the […]

Enter: Frederic Ros-Thornton

#@?*!! … I don’t think a word exists that can fully describe the enormity of the experience of giving birth for the first time. I’m patting myself on the back and crying with happiness at my brilliant achievement.
So, to the details: The next day Friday, after the ’sweep’, I had period pains. I felt direct […]

Fighting fit

“SORRY WHAT?” Over the last week or so these two words have populated the breadth of my vocabulary. On a recent visit to my GP I mentioned an ear complaint which consisted of full on blockage in the left side for at least 12 hours after every bath. He advised two drops of olive oil […]