Life, Love and Dirty Dishes delivers award winning funny tales from the parenting front line delivered with humour and heart. We're all in this together.
Modern life seems to involve constantly juggling something. Work deadlines, packed calendars, school runs, supermarket trips, forgotten PE kits, and trying to remember whether anyone in the house has actually eaten a vegetable that day. Somewhere in the middle of all that, people are also supposed to look after their health. It is no surprise…
Family gardens are a bit like family kitchens. No matter how tidy they start, within five minutes someone has kicked a ball through them, left toys everywhere, or turned a perfectly normal patch of grass into a mud wrestling arena. For busy parents, keeping an outdoor space looking decent can feel like a full-time job…
The mola mola, also known as the ocean sunfish, is one of the most unusual marine animals found in tropical and temperate oceans. Despite its large body and slow appearance, the mola mola survives in environments shaped by strong currents, changing temperatures, predators, and deep-water pressure. These conditions make the species an interesting example of…
I did not buy a bird feeder because I love birds. I bought a bird feeder because I love silence. Specifically, the kind of silence that happens when three children are staring out of a window instead of arguing about whose turn it is on the iPad. It was a Tuesday. The kind of Tuesday…
You can usually tell when life has become a bit cluttered long before the house looks messy. It shows up when it takes ten minutes to find a charger, or when you ignore another subscription email because you ‘might deal with it later’, or buy a replacement for something you already own but can’t find. A calmer routine often starts with removing the small bits of friction…
