Being Mrs C

An insight into the things in life that make me smile

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

I'm not totally sure why, but recently I have bee feeling a bit guilty about the number of "classics" that I've never actually read. I own many, often picked up in charity shops like many in my book collection, but most of them still sit in my "to be read" pile. Rather than feel bad about it I decided to do something about it recently and am therefore making myself alternate between classics and more modern books. Having looked at my bookshelf I realised that they all appear to be in alphabetical order by author, so starting at the beginning I found myself ... read more

Topsy and Tim

To say that Little Miss C loves books would be an understatement. The first things she wants in a morning is for us to read books to her. When we put her to bed at night the main reason she doesn't want to go is because that means no more bedtime stories. I remember Topsy and Tim books from my childhood and happened to pick up a couple of modern versions in a charity shop recently for LMC and she already loves them. In one day last week we ended up reading about Topsy and Tim visiting the dentist seven times! Of course today's Topsy and Tim books are somewhat different from the ones I ... read more

Scone based pizza

T make the scone base: Ingredients: 200g self-raising flour Pinch salt 50g grated cheese 50g butter 1/2 beaten egg About 160ml skimmed milk Method: Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees Place flour in mixing bowl and add pinch of salt Add the butter to the bowl and rub into the flour with your fingertips Mix in the grated cheese Make a well in the centre and add the 1/2 beaten egg. Mix Add sufficient milk to form a soft dough. Mix with a knife. This volume of ingredients will either make one large pizza or two smaller ones. Shape by hand or roll out as desired. To complete the pizza: Spread tomato ... read more

Elevenses

In some ways Little Miss C is a very girly girl. She loves playing in her little play kitchen and one of the Christmas gifts that she loved most was a tea set that we bought her. We often have pretend tea parties together and I don't think it's coincidence that two of her first words were "cake" and "tea". The tea parties aren't all make belive though. Most mornings after a good play session or a quick trip out I do try to make sure that we stop and sit down for a spot of elevenses together. By that stage of the day I need a cup of tea (normally Earl Grey these ... read more

Where did the mums leave their manners?

During the week Little Miss C and I like to get out and about a bit. We mix trips into town and to the local park with playing in the garden and play dates with friends. We also do a couple of classes a week locally. There's one music group that we've been going to since LMC was very small and several others that we go to on a drop in basis. We generally have great fun at these and both LMC and I have met some lovely people at these. Sadly there is a bit of a sour note though - some of the other mums. At nearly every class we go to there seem to be at least a couple of mums who just ... read more

Call the Midwife

Sunday evenings have been prety damn good TV evenings recently. With Sherlock and Downtown (which I still haven't seen!) loads of people have been talking about what they're watching at the end of the weekend. For me though the last couple of weeks have been a particular highlight as BBC has been showing Call the Midwife, based on based on Jennifer Worth's memoirs of the same name.  Jennifer Worth was a midwife in the east end of London in the 1950s and I understand that she worthed with the BBC production team on the TV adaptation before her death last year. I have to admit ... read more

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