On getting muddy
The up and down weather we’ve been having lately is making the time I spend with Mole and Hedgehog a constant dilemma as to whether we...


Living with chickens
For the past week we’ve had chickens living with us, or chicks to be more accurate. They are about 10 days old now, and beginning to lose...


Bedtime stories
It’s amazing how skilled they are at not going to bed isn’t it?. Last night for instance, when Hedgehog practically fell face down into...


The death conversation
It is mid-afternoon. We are driving slowly around Woburn Safari Park, Mole and Hedgehog are on the back seat, I am watching them in the...


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...


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...





