Pick Me Up! 12-Jan-2023

Popping the tent on the lawn, it was the perfect opportunity for a spot of camping – something the girls just loved to get involved in! With Nina, nine, and Faith, six, snuggled up in a sleeping bag, who would have thought we were in the back garden? Staying in the garden for four and a half months, during lockdown, we all appreciated the beauty of nature. But that wasn’t the only thing that Covid had highlighted. Being a member of various parenting groups on social media, it was clear that a lot of us were struggling. With the kids at home and huge changes happening in a matter of days, everyone could come together online, but what about in person? It was an idea that I couldn’t shake Face-to-face…

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This is a picture of my See adorable what I 12-year-old found living in my ground floor rescue housing car, Miz. association Always flat… I’ve never looking seen for one the next that big in the UK! I’m coming adventure. up to 83 but I managed to get up a ladder, popped a plastic mug over it, used a piece of cardboard to slide across the mug and slowly walked backwards down the ladder. I was so relieved to reach the bottom, quickly out the door and deposited it over the hedge! Rosemary Webster, Windsor ‘Now just behave and stop making an ass of yourself!’ That’s what my three-year-old grandson Billy seems to be saying to this donkey when we took him and his sister Nikki, six, to the Sidmouth Donkey…

Walking around the camp site, we checked the ground for the best place to set up our tents. ‘How about here?’ I asked my mum, Lavona Solomon, now 57. ‘Lovely view of the sea, perfect,’ she said happily. After we’d dumped our stuff, we lit a fire for a BBQ. It was another gorgeous weekend with Mum, my dad, Michael Solomon, now 54, and my big brother. Living in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa, we were a very outdoorsy family. I had many happy childhood memories – I felt blessed to have wonderful parents. They wanted me to be happy. But one day at school, back in 2015, I started hearing gossip that a new girl had started who look just like me. It’s probably exaggerated, I thought, thinking we…

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