ME & THE YOUNG

Do you have any drab looking flatpack furniture laying around? Here's a super simple guide to dressing it up, using an old pallet! This...

So, who doesn't dream of having beautiful fluffy chickens as pets? They are delightful little creatures, and as such, delightful...

When I was a kid there was a big fat stigma around home-schooling. There I said it. Actually, I am not going to pretend it's the first...

Obviously when you shop in China you expect to understand nothing of what is written on the packets. Didn't you study Chinese for 7 years...

We just had our first Chinese New Year in China. If I had known more about this, this definitely would've been on the bucket list. So now...

What's the point of it all? This blog not life. I don't have brain capacity for that rn. My husband is on holidays (Chinese New Year - we...

I wouldn’t say I’m an expert at many things. I can’t tango, or hold my breath for longer than a minute, and I literally have no...

Yesterday we had an afternoon tea with cousins and aunties, uncles, grandparents, and great grandparents at our house. The first birthday...

Not ‘new life’ as in a pregnancy announcement. No need to expect one of those from me in the future, actually ever again… I should have...

We were out for dinner last week and I asked Indi (who is four and a half) why she doesn't eat meat. She replied "Because I think the...

Today is my birthday. I felt like I didn’t tell enough people my age last year. You know, like when you turn twelve, and then immediately...

I can’t even believe it’s been a year (and four days but who has time to be on time these days?) since my baby was born. Six months ago...

It’s been said that; in order to get people to read your blog, your post has to, in someway, help them to kick proverbial butt. For that...

Think of it what you will, I’m all for any celebration making it OK to have chocolate before breakfast. Valentines day is also my mums...

Some people have been blessed with a ‘sweet tooth’, that sounds so dainty and ladylike. I on the other hand have been blessed with a full...

A little while ago I saw something on Pinterest about how to entertain your kids while you shop. It was a lolly necklace. Now, I don’t...

You know what’s fun? Spending a whole day, chopping, steaming, pureeing vegetables, freezing them in portions. Then cooking dinner for...

If you follow me on instagram you would’ve seen a couple of weeks ago that I had an epiphany, (well an e-pinterest-y) of how potato...

I’m not a fan of The Hobbit or The Lord of The Rings stuff. I’m sure it’s super amazing and really deep and blah blah blah, but I can’t...

Sometimes I call my mum, tell her the contents of my fridge and wait quietly while she comes up with something I should cook for dinner....