Review: Discovering great meals with Marley Spoon.
It’s fair to say that our meals tend to come in at the budget, simple and quick end of the scale. When you have a houseful of variously young and/or picky eaters and a limited spend per head, exotic...
View ArticleSponsored Post: Baking yourself happy!
I’ve only recently discovered the delights of baking; I’ve tended to avoid it in the past, given I can’t manage not to eat the proceeds and I more or less put on weight by looking at calories. But...
View ArticleFritha Mandala Again: Exploring Large Motifs.
As previously mentioned, I have fallen in love with mandalas and freestyle crochet; crocheting in the round has unlocked a creativity in my that I’m delighting in and a sense of inventing something...
View ArticleBittersweet revenge.
I’m not normally a particularly vengeful human, though I admit there have been a couple of times recently when karma has bitten a bottom very sweetly. I admit that when Ed Balls lost his seat in the...
View ArticleSponsored Post: Baking Myself Proud
So last week I mentioned how I was working on my baking skills. I thought long and hard and realised that more than the birthdays which festoon the Spring for us, I wanted to celebrate something else....
View ArticleComing Up Roses: a book review.
Rachael Lucas is one of my very oldest online friends (and latterly a real life one too… I have the honour of having shared a number of hotel rooms with her and had an inadvertent midnight cuddle from...
View Article“I Let You Go” book review &“How I Write” by Clare Mackintosh.
A little more than three years ago I sat at a coffee shop table with 2 friends and we talked about life, blogging, parenting, loss and writing. We all swore to write a book and now Clare, alongside the...
View ArticleMay.
If our life was a circus, every ball, actor, venue, booking and act would currently be hanging off a trapeze, or be up in the air, uncontracted, not paid the fee or possibly be a sobbing heap of...
View ArticleCreative uses for catering supplies.
This weekend I went through my craft cupboard and chucked out 4 large laundry tubs of stuff that has been shoved in there and not used over the last 4 years. My girls are outgrowing crafting as fast as...
View ArticleAppreciating Daddy.
We all like to feel appreciated and one of the ways we do that in our society tends to be gifts. That’s relatively easy for a family to do for a mum; flowers, pamper treats or maybe a nice bundle of...
View ArticleJust me and him. A #summerdayout
It’s been a funny few weeks without time or opportunity for blogging. Somethings shouldn’t be blogged perhaps, at least not while they are happening. In and among all of that, we’ve twitched our...
View ArticleRacing for Life.
I keep saying it’s been a funny few weeks here and it has. Not that it matters especially, other than that it has made me think very hard about trying to take better care of myself inside and out....
View ArticleWhat’s in a name?
Choosing baby names is tricky; it needs to appeal to you, you might want it not to be too popular (I speak as the temporary keeper and guide of one of the oldest Amelie’s in the country!) and give off...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleEditorial: 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...
View ArticleEverything 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...
View ArticleLost 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...
View ArticleSunday 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleGratitude. #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...
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