Learn a new language, learn to knit, spend time with your wonderful kids, build an online business. Just some of the helpful suggestions available to me on social media, after the compulsory ‘oh have you tried Joe Wicks??’ (no actually, I run every day so there). I’m getting by day to day. I’m working bloody [...]
Coronavirus. One of things that belongs in a book, probably by George Orwell or maybe Margaret Atwood if she was feeling cheerful. It’s taken everyone by surprise, off guard, trousers down. We’re all in shock. Is that happening now in the modern day? Now when we have so much technology to do everything for us? [...]
I do love my cats, we have two, Rosie and Maddie and they are such a part of the family that we miss them terribly when we go away. I’m lucky enough to have a very committed Dad who comes and feeds the cats twice a day (by bike I might add, aged 81) and [...]
s Breaking my blog silence for this one. I know it’s a PR story but fair play to the PR agency because any normal mum (without 24 hour support and on tap help) will feel bloody knackered by the time they get to work and no one but no one will really give a shit [...]
I saw a post on Facebook from Susanna Scott of A Modern Mother and Britmums fame recently. She had posted a link to the first British Mummy Bloggers carnival in 2010. One of my posts was in it, 20:20 Hindsight which was nice. So I read it of course, a bit of memory laning for [...]
I seem to spend a lot of time lately searching ‘things to do with kids’. I think this is because they are at the age where they want to get out and do interesting stuff, the same old parks and places are becoming boring (their words not mine, I could spend days on end at [...]
I woke up this morning feeling less than wonderful. Sore throat, headache, felt like cement had been poured into my ear overnight. Not hungover I might add, just bone-achingly tired for a variety of reasons. So it was with delight that on entering the kitchen I saw the dishwasher open but not unloaded, washing up [...]
Everything I do in my life I tend to go at with total and complete enthusiasm. For about a month or two. Sometimes longer but in the words of Joan Armatrading – the passion fades. So it is rather refreshing that the slightly strange and unintended ‘self-improvement’ programme I seem to have undertaken has, in [...]
First off I’m delighted that I managed to figure out how to access this blog again. I thought it was lost and gone forever and that the world would be left without any more of my hugely talented writing. But NO the universe was looking on at me and indeed you with love. And this [...]
Do you know it’s so rare that I write here that I cross my fingers each time that my computer will remember the password. It should be a simple thing to reset it but it’s not because I set this up in 2009 and many email addresses and wordpress sites have come since then. Such [...]
