Last week Maddy and I had the wonderful good luck to join some (not all, just some) of my very favourite bloggers at the Guinness World Records 60th birthday bash. It’s not often a bloggy event comes up that I know is just perfect for Maddy but with her love of the extra-ordinary, her fixation […]
Archives for November 2014
How Healthy Are You? #spon
16 years ago I watched my new husband give up smoking for good on the arrival of our first baby daughter. It seemed to be easy for him to do so, perhaps because he has a very black and white personality that doesn’t seem to argue with it’s own decisions internally. If only I could […]
And now she is 10.
My youngest little girl is ten. One of my friends said something yesterday that I’ve been thinking all week. When my big girls were ten, they were practically grown up. Josie is still just a baby. Surely, she is still just a baby? But she isn’t. She is, as all ten years old girls are, […]
Almost 3.
He’s almost three. It’s hard to believe there was ever a time when he wasn’t firmly at the centre of the family. He talks ALL the time now. When he doesn’t know the word he find a way round it. When he can’t get us to do his […]
What would I do with £100,000? #ad
Do you remember being small and dreaming of a million pounds, the endless riches that would bring, the countless riches that would be? Such riches. And then, growing up, inflation, reality and now, the horrible realisation that even if I had One. Million.Pounds it would only actually just cover the cost of the lovely small […]