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Category Archives: Reflections
Snow days in W11
Posted in Notting Hill News, Reflections
Tagged February, Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill, Notting Hill Gate, Notting Hill in the snow, snow, sunset, winter
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Remembrance
Posted in Reflections, Silent Sunday
Tagged Notting Hill, Remembrance Sunday, St John's church
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Not a Notting Hill Mum abroad
Removing the hair braids from Amelie’s hair … a very visual ending of the carefree seven week Summer holidays. When I say “carefree seven week holidays” obviously I mean carefree for the kids. Not their poor mother (that’s me!) . My … Continue reading
How (not) to ice your first Christmas cake
So.. the cake was there waiting to be iced with an almost perfectly smooth covering of marzipan. I knew from memory that what I needed was Royal Icing. Again mum’s icing was famed from one corner of the globe to … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Christmas cake, how to ice a cake, Lego advent calendar, Royal Icing
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How (not) to marzipan your first ever Christmas cake
Making and decorating the Christmas cake has always been an important ritual in our family. The recipe was handed down from my Grandmother and handwritten in my mother’s college recipe book. In modern times my mother has always made the … Continue reading
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I’m crucifying my brother
Back to school today and the Easter holidays are behind us, but not entirely forgotten. I just went into the children’s bedroom to find my 10 year old daughter trying to force a toy golf club down the neck of … Continue reading
Posted in Laugh out Loud, Reflections, The things kids do
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Paris, eat your heart out
Another year – another sea of red: red paper hearts hanging in every shop window and jiggling around on Google (please!), red foil on food and sparkling wine, red faces when one partner has out-shopped the other – or worse … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections, Uncategorized, What's on for families
Tagged architecture, Ghana, hearts, Royal Academy, Valentine's Day
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Help find a donor for baby Margot
We can all help – and here is how: On Saturday we went along to the Tabernacle on Powis Square for what was supposed to be 10 minutes – but turned into two hours. We normally go there for my … Continue reading
Posted in Notting Hill News, Reflections, Uncategorized
Tagged bone marrow donor, delete blood cancer, Margot Martini
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For Sarah – A Year On
It is a year today since Sarah’s funeral. It has been a terrible year in many ways, but the very worst thing has been that Sarah has not been there – and when other things went wrong Sarah was not … Continue reading
Hamster hunting
I spotted Cinnamon while in the bath last night about 1.30am. He happily stared me out, perhaps realising it was going to be tricky for me to get out and grab him fast enough. He was quite right. I tried … Continue reading
Posted in Laugh out Loud, Reflections
Tagged hamster footprints, hamster tracking, how to find your hamster
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Hamster therapy
Recently we looked after a friend’s hamster while they were on holiday.The children became rather attached to it and my daughter in particular seemed to find it soothing to have a cuddle with Stripe – for so the hamster was … Continue reading
Posted in Laugh out Loud, Reflections
Tagged escaping hamster, exercise ball, hamster, lost hamster, missing hamster, pet therapy
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Help deaf children learn – it just takes a signature
Our daughter Amelie is partially deaf – she has 50 per cent hearing in both ears. This means there are many consonants she cannot hear and so she finds it hard to follow conversation and has to make guesses at … Continue reading
