This is really a post to ask you to decide to donate £5 tonight, by texting HEART to 70060 so that WorldVision can keep on with their work to try and make Halloween a night where all children can have fun and laughter and treats. In too many places in the world, October 31st is […]
Archives for October 2015
Halloween Crafting #BostikBloggers
Halloween is having a bit of a revival here this year as (thanks to the infernal YouTube phenomena that is Blippi!) Bene has really got into the idea and is very excited about being a skeleton while he’s out trick or treating tonight. I’ve been a bit forthright and told the big girls they can […]
On Infant Loss and finding joy again.
Lying in bed listening to my littlest boy breathe, feeling his soft hand against my cheek and not being afraid the next song on the radio will tear my heart out, those are the things happiness is made of these days. And that happiness reminds me of just how brutally sad it is possible to […]
A quest for the perfect dining room.
I saw an article yesterday about a conglomerate ‘perfect’ home made up using all the most popular pins from Pinterest of different rooms in a house. Unsurprisingly the resulting house is a mansion in a quintessentially American style, with colossal rooms and more space in the hallways than we have in our home. From perfectly […]
What’s not to like? #NoLikesNeeded
If I’m honest, there aren’t many bits of my life I look back and and absolutely think “I wish I could go back to then” and relive it all over and one stage I shrugged off with delight was my teenage years. Being chubby, plain, short and socially awkward teen in a school full of […]
