According to a recent survey, 31 is the average age of financial maturity for most Brits. In my experience, that sounds about right. But with a caveat that I’ll come to later. By the time I reached that age, we were in our second home – albeit our first true family home – had one …
Month: September 2019
Now I’m working full-time, there are lots of things I’m missing about working from home. Having more time with my family is obviously up there, as are parts of my old routine like the school run. But there are a few things I’m not missing at all. Particularly some of the kids’ TV characters youngest …
Disclosure: this is a paid collaboration with Gautier Semences. My kids love Piccolo tomatoes. We grow them in our back garden and they can’t get enough of them. So it was a good thing when the people at Thanet Earth sent us a large box of them! As the name suggests, the Piccolo tomatoes are …
There may be two months to go but I’ve decided to admit defeat in my 40 before 40 challenge. I set out with high hopes but have somehow only managed to achieve one item on my list. Yes, just one. The reasons for this monumental failure can be broadly summarised by a distinct lack of time …
Nothing is ever straightforward with three kids in tow. Take last weekend, for example. We needed to go into town to get a few new things. The most urgent of which, as far as I was concerned, were some new pants. But a simple trip to buy them was anything but a brief encounter. We …