Menu Skip to content
  • About Me
  • My books
  • Blog
  • Desert Island Books
    • My Top Ten Modern Fiction
    • My Top Ten Classic Fiction
    • My Top Ten Detective Fiction
  • Reviews
    • Interviews
  • A year of books
  • Two for Joy

Category: Travel

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 helenlouisechandler

Ode to Joy

June 8, 2018 helenlouisechandler

All quiet on the blogging front

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 helenlouisechandler

Easter travels

August 21, 2017 helenlouisechandler

Beside the seaside

June 5, 2017 helenlouisechandler

Beside the seaside

April 11, 2016 helenlouisechandler

A week in Provence

March 21, 2016 helenlouisechandler

The weekend that was

December 23, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Twenty-third Day of Advent: Holidays

December 12, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Twelfth Day of Advent: New York

December 10, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Tenth Day of Advent: Cornwall

December 3, 2015 helenlouisechandler

The Third Day of Advent: My daughters

April 23, 2015April 23, 2015 helenlouisechandler

La Dolce Vita

May 26, 2014May 26, 2014 helenlouisechandler

Rain doesn’t stop play

September 13, 2013September 13, 2013 helenlouisechandler

Lost in Margate

August 29, 2013August 29, 2013 helenlouisechandler

Of ships and shoes and sealing wax

August 8, 2013 helenlouisechandler

Summer holidays

May 8, 2013May 21, 2013 helenlouisechandler

Home Exchange

Mumsnet Member

mumsnet

Search Helen’s site

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Instagram

Took the 7yo with me on the March of the Mummies this morning. I want her, and my 13yo daughter, to grow up in a world where there isn't a gender pay gap, where childcare doesn't cost a working family more than their housing, where dads get to play an equal part in raising their children, where adoptive parents aren't penalised, where women don't have to terminate a wanted pregnancy because they can't afford childcare.
Scampering through the autumn leaves in Calderstones Park, stop for a hot chocolate, and then helping Grandad make a bug mansion (bug hotels are so passe!) back at home. Gorgeous October.
Compulsory Pride face glitter selfie!
Girls' weekend in Brighton. Champagne, cocktails and carousels, an early(ish) morning swim, the Pride parade, a mooch around the shops, sitting in the sunny courtyard garden, bleary pyjama-clad pastry eating round the kitchen table, getting all dressed up to go and eat delicious Italian food and listen to drag queens doing karaoke. Spending time with some of my favourite humans in the world.
We had lunch @pizzaexpress on Saturday, and my 6yo was very taken with the competition on the Piccolo menu to compose some Christmas song lyrics. She has come home and given it a lot of thought, before coming up with this (to be sung to the tune of Jingle Bells). The prize is a family meal at Pizza Express, and she is very excited about winning it and getting to take us all out for dinner. Not winning hasn't really occurred to her as a possibility...
Happy 1st of December! (I hope I haven't set the bar so the children expect a novelty breakfast every morning of Advent...)

Twitter

  • Summer in the City helenlchandler.com/2022/08/03/sum… 4 months ago
Follow @HelenLChandler

Facebook

Facebook

Archives

2016 books advent Agatha Christie anxiety autumn babies Back-to-School baking beach birthday party birthdays blogging Book launch books breastfeeding Cath Kidston cats Children Christmas cleaning community cooking Corona Virus Covid19 Family family time food Friends friendship Gardening half term happiness healthy eating Helen Chandler holiday holidays January Jennifer Weiner Katie Fforde kittens Lisa Jewell Liverpool London love me-time mental health Miscarriage motherhood my year in books National Trust New Year NHS Nigella Oxford Parenting politics Pregnancy presents rain reading school school holidays shopping social media Spring starting school summer summer holidays toddlers To Have and to Hold Two for Joy Walthamstow Waterstones Weather writing

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • helenlchandler.com
      • Join 255 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • helenlchandler.com
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...