I’ve craved a year that could be called ‘mostly nice’ for the last few years. It’s been a while. Mostly painful, mostly dreadful, mostly despairing, mostly frightening, mostly stressful – those are the ways to describe the years from about 2006 onwards. From torrid times at home, to stressfully trying to maintain a business and […]
Archives for 2013
Promoted Post: Preventing the Spread of Coughs and Colds
The content below has been written on behalf of Patch of Puddles and contains handy hints on keeping the family healthy in the cough and cold season. As pretty much constant users of Vicks products since roughly 3rd September this year for one or other of us, I’m happy to receive tips. Roll on Spring! […]
Christmas Eve 2014
This year we celebrated making it to Christmas Eve without tears, though sometimes I was brought almost to tears by the lack of them. We celebrated a good Christmas at work, which we managed on 3 members of staff (two of them us) and which was positive for us and our customers and the future, […]
A Christmas Craft Wreath with Toadstools & Felted Holly
The last few years we’ve been able to take part in a pre-Xmas home ed day doing lots of Christmas crafts but this year it just wasn’t on the cards any more (sob, sob) and so I had to make a wreath all on my very own. I’ve been meaning to get round to trying […]
Thrifting a little at Christmas.
It’s an in joke that I totally fail to be thrifty at Christmas; I’m hopeless at working to budgets (Max handles the household money for most elements of our life) and hopeless at not indulging my children. I could blame that on more recent elements of life but it isn’t true or honest to blame […]
A little self indulgence.
You mustn’t blog about blogging. It’s a rule, right up there with ‘do not flounce’ and ‘do not break disclosure rules’ and ‘do not put things in your blog you don’t want your teenagers friends to find’. It narrows things down a bit at times 😉 I’m going to allow myself a little self administered […]
Family Frolics – finding joy on a grey day.
If this time of year is about anything, it’s about family time. We’ve guarded out time between Christmas Eve and New Year jealously for years as the run up to Xmas is a busy one for us with work anyway and latterly an emotional one. The last two years have been full of panto and […]
Promoted Post: Beating the Seasonal Blues
This time of year brings shorter days, plummeting temperatures, and a bleakness that can often be matched by our mood. We may all fall victim to the winter blues every now and again, but for some this can develop into something much more serious. Seasonal Affective Disorder (appropriately abbreviated SAD) is a form of depression […]
Sponsored Post: Simply Be You.
I’ve written quite a lot recently about trying to change my weight and my shape and how I feel about myself. Six months on and 1/6 of my body weight down, having overcome a huge hurdle in terms of how I think about food, I’m so much happier about myself. In truth, the change in […]
Win a Le Toy Van Honeybake Wooden Food Bundle
The comp is at the bottom, first comes the frothy business gush. You can skip it if you wish. 😆 Most regular readers of this blog will know that we’ve run an online toy business for 10 years; it’s not always had quite the same name, but PlayMerrily Toys is the core of what we […]
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