Our ideas for keeping costs down as you dress for expecting a baby
Having a child is estimated to cost UK parents on average £10,000 a year. And that’s not really even taking into account what support and items mum might need along the way.
Preparing for a baby involves more than planning, [...]
Maternity clothing – and how to save money on it
Patch of Puddles Blog nominated for MAD Award
Alongside this website, we’ve kept a family blog for the last 9 years, detailing the ups and downs of our life as a home educating, small business owning family. Our family has grown from 5 people, to 7 people and back to 6 people on that blog as it chronicled not only the pregnancies and [...]
Books, Gardens & more on PoP
We’ve had a very interesting couple of weeks on Patch of Puddles with masses of interaction from readers giving us ideas on many topics.
We’ve been discussing Books for Kids with masses of ideas for children aged 9-14 to read. This was a follow up to a post from several years ago on Classic Books for [...]
New at the Puddle February 5th
We’ve been having a go at some new Chinese New Year based Crafts, over at Patch of Puddles. As is so often the case, it is mainly Fimo and Hama Beads, but nice and creative even so!
I’m gradually updating the Chinese New Year pages over on the right hand menu.
We’ve also put a download of [...]
About MuddlePuddle
After far too long dormant, MuddlePuddle is going to come live again. What started as an early years website, specifically aimed at 0-8’s, is still doing a great job but it got old and tired and we stopped updating it. In that time, the internet has grown and changed [...]
Puddles 2010
For a daily/weekly/fortnightly update on how home education works for the Puddle Family, you can visit us at PatchofPuddles







