Full-time working mum of three littles, navigating parenting and staying (mostly) sane, somewhere in the middle of England. I'm passionate about trying to remove ultra-processed foods (UPFs) from our diets, and raising active and happy kids.
I mostly post snippets about #parenting, #food, #books, (occasionally) #investing and other titbits of life. Say #notoUPFs!
So, millennials... we're all watching Hannah Montana tonight, right?
uk loading gauge data added thanks to @wnd
i was really hoping for it to be a bit more interesting but it turns out that british trains are fairly uniformly tiny
(HS1's GC gauge annoyingly not in the data before anyone asks :) )
same link as before: https://compute.olie.science/expo/?data=loading_gauge/2026-03-18#x=11.4357&y=50.3034&z=3.6377
I've been creating again... It's nothing new or particularly innovative, but I made 'oreo' ice cream sandwiches. The kids love the shop bought ones, but they're so expensive...
These homemade equivalents are UPF free, and way cheaper. Plus no packaging, so can I argue they're better for the environment too?
Eldest son (a particularly picky eater of late) gave them 1000000/10, so I'm calling this a win
#Homemade #icecream #sweettreat #baking #chocolate #parenting
Kids are naturally intuitive eaters, and I'm trying to keep this going for as long as possible. So, when daughter asked if she could have some cherry tomatoes I responded with "of course you can!"
She ate the entire bag of cherry tomatoes... the entire bag. And it wasn't a small bag.
Not sure if this makes me a good or bad parent, but she met her vitamin c goal for the day 😅
When you ask the 6 year old to get her own socks and shoes on...
School shoes and fluffy reindeer socks it is!
Daughter has so many books in her bed now that she's sorted them into fiction and non-fiction piles...
I think it might be time to get her some proper bookshelves
TfL is doing some stuff for Neurodiversity Celebration Week and I just learned that they have a 'travel mentoring' service where people will help you route plan and use the maps, as well as accompanying you on practice journeys if you need. This is very cool!
'It's the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, "I shall never play The Dane!" It is at that moment that all ambition ceases to exist.' - Uncle Monty
from "Withnail and I"
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