Mother’s Day is always a funny thing. For one it comes so close after Xmas and my birthday that there is never anything I want as a gift (well, smelly bath stuff is always welcome) and for a second, getting gifts because I got lucky and got to be a mummy, seems a bit of […]
Reviewing the #ZentasticXmas Asus Zenfone 5LTE.
The opportunity to do a phone review isn’t one that wafts past me very often; I said yes without really thinking about it and it was only then that it occurred to me, with a sinking feeling, that this meant I was going to have to try and find my way round an android phone. […]
Countdown to Christmas.
This week I have realised with horror that all my Christmas sparkle has totally disappeared. I have no idea what to buy my children, I have nothing I want, there is nothing we need (except more time and money and you can’t buy either of those!) and Christmas is sneaking up so fast that I […]
The Perfect Picnic.
At the beginning of the summer, just before our perfect holiday in Devon, we took a trip down to our local park to get us back in the habit of spending time together. It was entirely impromptu, with no grand food plans and very few wonderful photos. But in the soft heat of the end […]
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 […]
Dipping a toe in Victorian Britain.
Victoria Britain was one of my heart-throb history eras as a child; I lapped up anything that harked back to Dickensian times or just after. I loved stories from when kids were either banged up in the workhouse or an orphanage or held hostage in the nursery at the top of the house. I loved […]
It's an emergency! Unexpected Expenses.
Like plenty of families in this day and age, we are no strangers to the irritating habit money has of going out faster than it comes in. With 5 children to buy for – and an increasingly aging car that is beginning to require hospitalisation for things like “a stuck sensor… that will be £600, […]
The Innocent Letter P.
The lady at Innocent said to me, What can you do with the letter P? I asked all the children to tell me a word, They thought of when the letter P they heard. Truly I wondered as they giggled and laughed, If their thoughts were mostly naughty or daft? Then off they all went […]
Visiting Bletchley Park
Last week we were lucky enough to be invited to Bletchley Park by McAfee who have a Cyber Security Exhibition within the main building. I probably spent half my childhood locked in a book that related to the war in some way, romanticising a difficult period of history into something that seemed exhilarating and exciting. […]
Back to school. All change for Puddleton.
Back to school has happened. 3 schools, 4 different uniforms, a school run that takes 45 minutes minimum twice a day, a sixth former for the first time and an awful lot of school uniform. I always leave it late, always. This year I managed to leave it to the last 2 days, which was […]
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