The Snot Monster
It’s been a sick house at Mole and Hedgehog Associates this week. I blame the Autumn cold weather. First Mole got the streaming nose,...


Boys and Girls
Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, right?. It reminds me of that Blur song: “Girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls, who...


Seaside
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, oh I do like to be beside the sea… have I gone a bit too ‘tally ho and hip hip hooray’ British for...


Toddler care - the low maintenance method
Mole and Hedgehog are not going to sleep tonight. They are up and down the stairs like a pair of yoyos. This happens about 3 nights out...


Bogeys, Holidays and Umbrellas
Me: “Mole, please take your finger out of your nose”. Mole: “But I’m trying to get my bogey out”. Me: “Leave the bogey alone, it will...


Ants and Snails
Mole and Hedgehog LOVE animals. Fury ones, scaly ones, feathered ones, it doesn’t matter. It is the only other thing besides my phone or...


A Thousand Miles Away
It appears that we have irreversibly changed. We now have children that we are addicted to, and doing ‘adult stuff’ without them is all...


Things of late
Hedgehog: “Read it mummy. Read it mummy. Read it, read it, read it, READ IT!”. Me: “Okay, I just need to put your sister’s jumper on...


The nocturnal week
“Sleep is for wimps”, this is what Hedgehog would say if she could talk more. As you can tell, its been a particularly bad week for sleep...


Poor, boring and happy
Am I alone in thinking that having babies spells financial suicide? It’s not the extra clothes / food / toys / tickets for them so much...





