Changes 19 Aug 2013 | 04:33 pm

I made an expedition to London the other day and revisited some of my old stomping grounds: as well as the Clapham North area where we still own a house, I walked around bits of Soho, particularly the...

Back to Blighty 14 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm

The glorious West Berkshire downs I'm back. With a new name and new picture, but I listened to my audience and have kept the "Nappy Valley", despite the fact that we're not going to be living there ...

36 hours on the California Zephyr 5 Aug 2013 | 05:12 pm

In the Wild West 24 Jul 2013 | 05:28 am

My little cowboys Hello from Denver, where I'm writing this from a gloomy motel room next to the station, where we have to be at 7AM tomorrow morning to catch the California Zephyr to San Francisco. ...

Moving on.... 1 Jul 2013 | 11:16 pm

Littleboy 2 gets ready for the move With less than two weeks to go on Long Island, I feel as if we're in a kind of limbo. We've had the goodbye party, sent out the thank you cards, but haven't yet ph...

Goslings, graduation and growing up 20 Jun 2013 | 11:44 pm

When I was a student, my parents were living in a farmhouse in Suffolk which had a large pond. Every time I went home for the holidays, my mother would regale me with tales of the ducklings on the pon...

Diorama drama 12 Jun 2013 | 11:36 pm

Well, we did the diorama. In the end it was surprisingly painless, because Littleboy 1, having moaned about it making it, suddenly decided 10 minutes into the project that he absolutely loved it and ...

Where I live: Indoors chez Nappyvalleygirl 7 Jun 2013 | 08:59 pm

A friend of mine is selling her house. For one reason and another it's been a little slow to sell, so the agent has now suggested that their house be "staged" to look better. The other day, a professi...

Bloomin' June... 6 Jun 2013 | 01:26 am

At least the roses in the garden are blooming The end of the school year is looming, and June is blooming....chaotic. There's a delicious blog post gone viral at the moment over here, by American bl...

Six weeks.... 30 May 2013 | 11:01 pm

Six weeks to go before we leave Long Island. Not long, is it? Three more weeks of school (which I am sure will fly by) and then three weeks when the boys are at summer camp, for The Doctor and I to s...