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Barefoot shoes for children – review of Livie & Luca’s Pio Pio

October 21, 2016 by Milla 2 Comments

Barefoot shoes for children – review of Livie & Luca’s Pio Pio

I’ve written about barefoot shoes for children before. Not only that, but the ones I reviewed were by the same brand and bought from the same retailer and, as they’re the same style and only the design is different, there’s not that much new to say. They do, however, feature a gorgeous glittery bird that prompted The Girl to learn a new word: “sparkly” (only with more of a lisp) and garnered a whole heap of admiring compliments from friends, family and strangers alike.  That being said I have simply linked you to my previous review and will now blitz you with lots of fab, shiny photos of the shoes and even a little video I put together of them in use.

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Ryan Williams & the tampon tax – focusing on the wrong thing

October 18, 2016 by Milla 2 Comments

Ryan Williams & the tampon tax – focusing on the wrong thing

In the abstract I suppose there’s nothing much wrong with wondering why tampons should not be free. At the moment the crux of the campaign is more to have the ‘luxury’ tax removed from sanitary wear (the tampon tax), so taking that a step further and making them free to all women might seem a strange concept. Especially to a young man who not only doesn’t have to shell out roughly a tenner a month on things to shove up his orifices before binning them, but probably doesn’t have to pay for food, rent or laundry either, since he lives at Hotel des Maman et Papa. (I’m guessing here, but it seems unlikely that someone this ignorant is allowed out on their own, never mind that they’re able to earn a wage sufficient to keep a roof over their head).

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Ten gender neutral gift ideas for 1 year olds

October 17, 2016 by Milla Leave a Comment

Ten gender neutral gift ideas for 1 year olds

Please don’t let the title of gender neutral gift ideas for 1 year olds put you off reading this. It doesn’t have to mean that you buy everything in yellow and rigorously avoid anything with even a hint of polarity to it. I just like to offer suggestions of toys and gifts that will do for either girls or boys, especially as, at only one, they’re still so fluid in their play and haven’t succumbed in any way to societal expectations of what’s appropriate. So if you have a grandchild, godchild, niece or nephew to buy for – or even if you’re struggling to think of something your own child will enjoy this Christmas or for their first birthday, perhaps this will help.

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Camping with kids – our dry run!

October 12, 2016 by Milla Leave a Comment

Camping with kids – our dry run!

So this weekend we tried out camping with kids for the first time ever. In days gone by it was something The Man and I did quite regularly. We used to volunteer with a youth organisation, so as well as personal camping trips to Wales and the Peak District, we would accompany Duke of Edinburgh expeditions to do spot checks, waypoints and basically make sure they knew how to pitch tents, cook porridge and not get up to any mischief. The most fun was taking the new recruits out on Initial Expedition Training as it was far less hardcore and they would have such a good time.

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Not okay – denying sexual assault

October 10, 2016 by Milla Leave a Comment

Not okay – denying sexual assault

Have you seen the Twitter hashtag Not okay (#notokay)? I came across it via a friend’s link on Facebook and clicked through from a mixture of anti-Trump sentiment and prurient curiosity about other womens’ experiences. Yes. I admit it. I was smugly voyeuristic as I read through horrifying account after horrifying account, each of them summed up into a neat 140 characters or fewer, because I was one of the rare, the lucky few, who had never been assaulted.

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First day of school – T minus 1 day

September 4, 2016 by Milla 2 Comments

First day of school – T minus 1 day

It’s about this time of year that the internet explodes with back to school stuff. Everything from advertising the latest shoes/pencil case/bag to “must have” lists from know-it-all mum bloggers (totally me next year!). I can’t join in with these, though, because this year it’s not ‘back to school’ for us, but ‘first day of school’.

He’s totally ready for the experience, as am I (especially after 6 weeks of summer holidays, believe me!), but there’s still a part of me wondering how on earth my little boy is old enough to be at school. I think the hardest thing to adjust to, however, is actually going to be the permanence and rigidity of the whole thing. I’ve been a Stay-At-Home/Work-At-Home -Mum since before he was born. For the whole of his life I have had complete flexibility over his timetable and can do what suits me, him and the family. Even at preschool I could whisk him away if we wanted or needed to and he spent the majority of his time with me.

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Milla is a middle-class (note the pearls), rising middle-age (note the wrinkles), self-employed mum of two (note the slightly manic expression) with hippy tendencies and a serious chocolate dependency issue. She lives in South Oxfordshire and writes about whatever she can, whenever she can.

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