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 […]
Haulage on bent wings and an empty bank account.
A conversation this morning in our kitchen went something like this:- Child Who Shall Remain Nameless: “So um… do you think the tooth fairy might visit soon? It’s just that, well, I’m quite short of cash this week….” *blank face* Me: “You lost a tooth? Again? Still?!?!?!” CWSRN: *sighs audibly* “Yuhuh. You know, about 3 […]
Hey Mickey. #review
I don’t tend to buy clothes with characters or branding on them. For one I have no knowledge or patience for ‘labels’ and for two, I really object to paying hiked prices for pjs that have a Disney princess on them. My favourite thing recently has been one of the brands that we sell ourselves […]
Gratitude. #SaveSyriasChildren
One of the most powerful lessons since Freddie’s death is that of gratitude. Counting my blessings. I learned it, not from the people who told me to be grateful for the children I still had alive and well, not from the people who told me to be glad I could have another child and not […]
Making space at home.
This week we have been recreating our kitchen as an actual useful space, rather than a shockingly badly designed hovel of a kitchen from hell as designed by the developers of our estate. That deserves a post all of its own – and it will get one! – but it has meant we’ve been rediscovering […]
Soothing Stitches: Snuggly Crochet Pillow
I do love a good pillow – ‘cushion bothering’ (hugging and harassing one to combat anxiety) is something I like to do. I’m still busy with my #UseUpYarnYear and this Vintage Chunky Deramores yarn was under my bed and in need of love. I customised a pattern from a book and started blind with a […]
Lost me again.
There was a time when I sat here and splurged out my feelings and our comings and goings and doings. The internet used to be a safe place to do so, relatively speaking. There were days when I could splurge out my feelings and make reference obliquely to things that were going on where I […]
Everything changes and so do eye.
Get any bunch of mums together (in my experience either within a very short while after pregnancy/birth or a very long time after so the wry humour is left and the need to share horror stories has passed!) and you’ll hear all the tales of how their body changed and the havoc that pregnancy wreaked […]
Editorial: 5 common accidents that happen on holiday
After 5 years of frugal living and holidaying in a safe spot we know and can rely on fulfilling our needs, next year looks like it might be a little different. It’s not that there is much extra money around, but there is a little and we are beginning (some of us!) to be ready […]
When habits cost the earth (and hit your pocket too).
Do you have shopping habits? I know I do. One of them, for reasons I can’t explain, is that if I go intro a shop to buy a set of ingredients or top up supplies (and it tends to be me who does this), if one or two of the items are on some form […]
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