BFL Post Viking Longboat Craft Posted on May 31, 2025January 9, 2026 By Becky Viking Longboat Craft: At a Glance Best for ages: 5 and up (with adult help for younger children) Time needed: 45-60 minutes Difficulty: Medium – some fiddly bits require grown-up hands Mess level: Low to medium Curriculum link: KS2 History – Vikings (Year 4) What you will make: A cardboard… Read more
BFL Post A Year in our home! Before and Afters Posted on June 3, 2020January 28, 2022 By Becky On the 28th May we celebrated a whole year in our home! In some ways it feels like yesterday and I can’t believe a year has passed, in others it seems like we’ve been here longer and that I can’t imagine living anywhere else. When I look around I often… Read more
Homeschooling during lockdown Posted on June 2, 2020December 22, 2025 By Becky Lockdown has meant taking on more of a hands-on approach to our children’s education, which can be challenging at the best of times. I don’t know about you, but it’s certainly made me appreciate what my kid’s teachers do even more. So how can we make homeschooling our kids easier?… Read more
10 Surprising Positives of Lockdown Posted on May 25, 2020January 28, 2022 By Becky It must be 9 weeks (or is it 10?) since we, as a family, have been ‘in’, and by ‘in’ I of course mean lockdown, something that every single person in the whole of the UK (unless you’re an amazing key worker of course), has been enduring. We’ve now had… Read more
Freddie’s Photography Posted on May 19, 2020January 3, 2022 By Becky This morning whilst Adam was on work calls I decided to take all 3 children to our local common for a bit of ‘homeschool’ variety. They all love it there, there is plenty of space to roam, and it’s so quiet in the mornings aside from a few dog walkers…. Read more
12 days in…and a new normal! Posted on March 29, 2020January 3, 2022 By Becky 12 days in. It’s been 12 days now since we began a new normal our family went into self-isolation after I became unwell and developed a temperature. Whilst I am much better now, and I don’t believe I had coronavirus (just regular ill-timed lurgy!), it still meant the enforced end… Read more
BFL Post Arlo’s Eclectic Toddler Boy Bedroom Posted on February 25, 2020November 6, 2024 By Becky This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for ages, and now that I have the final prints on the wall, I can! When we moved into our house nearly 9 months ago, we always knew that Arlo was destined to have one of the smaller rooms in the… Read more
And Then There Were Three… Posted on February 21, 2020January 28, 2022 By Becky This post is dedicated to all of you women out there who have recently found out that you are carrying a child. We’re not sure how you might be feeling about that at this present time, because we know that having a baby is going to give you a whirlwind… Read more
Double Chocolate and Cherry Brownies Posted on February 16, 2020 By Becky I am SO happy to be writing this blog post on double chocolate and cherry brownies. Firstly, because it’s been lovely to have a fairly chilled out weekend in which to potter, bake and play with my camera (thanks, Storm Dennis!), and secondly, because I am overjoyed to have taken… Read more