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July 19, 2015

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How to do a car boot sale like a boss

Over recent months I've been feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of 'stuff' we have accumulated.

So I have started making in-roads into decluttering the house.

The resulting piles of things to sell were threatening to take over our basement. And, to be honest, listing individual items on eBay, Gumtree and Facebook selling groups was taking too much time and bringing few rewards. So I decided to take the bull by the horns and brave a car boot sale.

The idea of setting the alarm for 5am on a Sunday morning was horrific. But, quite frankly, the idea of having piles of 'stuff' sitting downstairs any longer, was enough motivation to bypass my lie-in.

Here are my tips to do a car boot sale like a boss.

Tip one: Enlist some help.
My eldest, who is nine years old, was keen to spend a morning helping me sell our unwanted clutter. However, he did name a price - I was to buy him a McDonalds breakfast on the way! You can imagine how disappointed he was when we arrived at …

The Siblings Project | August 2016

I find it incredibly difficult to capture all four of my children in a photograph where they are looking in the right direction and smiling. But somehow, this month, I managed it!

We were at The Bear Trail just outside Cullompton in Devon at our first Devon Bloggers Meet.

We'd been around the assault course twice and were spending some time in the younger children's play area so Ossie could have a play on equipment more suited to a toddler.

Beatrix was sitting on a tyre (because she was tired - excuse the pun) and was holding Ossie. So I invited the two other boys over for a photo and was shocked when even Wilf, who normally avoids the camera like the plague, came over and posed.

Here's the result:

Overcoming nursing aversion

Nursing is all about warmth, contentment, being at one with your child. And if you're into your second year of breastfeeding, you would imagine you would be well past any major problems. So I was shocked and horrified when my previously very easy breastfeeding journey suddenly became irritating and horrid.

Nursing aversion or breastfeeding agitation can range from a general unease or unhappiness about nursing through a skin-crawling feeling to a very extreme, almost overpowering, wish to get the nursling off you. It can strike anyone nursing an older child, and is particularly common if you are breastfeeding and pregnant or tandem feeding.

I was lucky enough to sail through pregnancy with my third with barely any aversion to nursing my second. However, once my youngest was born and my daughter increased her nursing with a vengeance to take advantage of the rich, creamy, new milk, I began to occasionally resent her constant demands - particularly when she was waking in the night mo…

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