Tag Archive: family

July 15, 2026

Spring update & banana muffins (GF, SF)

I was planning to publish some new posts here throughout spring, but my business, motherhood, family and friends needed more of my attention, so my availability for writing was a bit limited. But, today, I wanted to post those few words to those of you who continue reading my blog as a thank you for being my readers and as a way to stay in touch.

[Pictures: Books on untranslatable words I recently reviews on the school’s blog; breastfeeding everywhere, here at the Egg Theatre in Bath; making and writing cards is one of my family’s favourite craft activity.]

I also put together a recipe for super-easy banana muffins. I make them gluten-free and sugar-free, but you can add other flour alternatives or sugar, to your taste. 

Banana muffins

Ingredients: (cca 12 muffins)

4 bananas

1 spoon of lemon-squeezed juice

2 eggs

200g grounded almonds (or a difference flour alternative)

2 spoons of unsweetened raw cacao

1 teaspoon of soda (optional)

A dash of cinnamon

50g chopped (dark) chocolate / (frozen) blueberries / (frozen) raspberries / (frozen) strawberries / desiccated coconut (mix & match, optional)

Pre-heat the oven to 180 C. Put unpeeled and chopped bananas in the bowl and add the lemon juice. Add eggs and almonds and squeeze everything with a fork. Add cacao, cinnamon and soda and mix together. Prepare a baking form, fill it with paper cases, pour the dough and decorate with chocolate or fruit (optional). Put to the oven and bake for around 18-20 minutes.

Last, but definitely not least, I hope you have a wonderful summer, filled with this idyllic time of dolce far niente and other pleasures of life which never find any footprints in the online world.

Enjoy the summer!

September 7, 2022

Travelling corner: summer 2022 in family-friendly Bristol

It’s September. Welcome back! I wrote about some of my favourite places we kept visiting this summer for you. They’re family-friendly places, but can be visited by adults too.

Miniature Railway in Ashton Court

We had such a fun time! Me (and my family) enjoyed all the miniature railway rides so much that we returned to this place many times over the summer. I learned about this place from my friend, and she also learned about it by word of mouth. As one of the team members said, it’s one of the best kept secrets of Bristol 😉 So worth a visit!

Tyntesfield

Many of my friends recommended this place, but somehow we never visited it. Until this year! What a beautiful space, and so much fun for the children. My friend said it’s her new ‘happy place’ and I called it my new ‘secret garden’. It definitely brought lots of joy to our lives this summer.

The zoo

This is more a tribute to this place, as the zoo is now permanently closed, and will be moved to the Wild Place Project. I first visited the zoo when I was still a uni student, and later returned to it regularly with our children. I understand the logic that animals will have more space in the Wild Place Project, but I will miss this cosy zoo in the centre of Clifton.

What have you discovered this summer in Bristol? Please let me know in the comments below.

July 6, 2022

My extraordinary-ordinary life

My life became so upside-down since becoming a mum for the third time! My baby boy was born in March and since then we started our new journey as a family of 5 (three children + mama and papa ;). People constantly ask me: how is it to be a mum to three children?!? And I think they’re more petrified by the mere idea of having so many children than me actually having them. I so clearly remember asking my friend (a mum to 4 children) the very same question. That was 7 years ago! I wouldn’t think back then that we’ll decide to have a bigger family. Life is fascinating.

We’re slowly out and about, so new travel stories and recommendations to follow from September. Meanwhile, we enjoy our extraordinary-ordinary life, so simple and so rich.

Have a lovely summer, let’s squeeze the best of it 🙂