Social media, a place I love, and love to hate. I find it a great source of community support, and also a place where information and help are often better than in real life. But recently I have noticed something that has made me feel a little uncomfortable. If you have an instagram account or […]
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Sharing a guest post on how to Change Your Life by Outsourcing Parts of It, by Ian Child, author of Your Own Personal Time Machine. This post may contain affiliate links, which if you click on and make a purpose, earn me a small commission. They are marked with *AF. Time is precious – we’ve […]
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*This is a collaborative post sharing advice on choosing the perfect venue for your wedding, that we hope is helpful* You’ve just got engaged to the one you love, and now it’s time to start thinking about your wedding plans. What ideas do you have in mind for your big day? Do you want a classic traditional wedding or […]
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Welcome to the Blogger Amazon Giveaway. This is not your usual blog post but don’t click away, because this is a post you don’t want to miss. It’s always good to have something to look forward to, and we like our blog to be a mostly hopefully positive place so I am delighted to have […]
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Welcome to Meal Plan Monday and we seem to be saying goodbye January this week. It feels like January has been about 400 days long, so I can’t say I am sad about that. Roll on spring, and that does feel like it is coming closer. Each week I share what we are eating, planning […]
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We make carbonara round here and love it. Because carbonara is made with pecorino which is a sheep’s milk cheese and my husband isn’t allergic to that, it means he can enjoy carbonara if we source really good gluten free pasta. So that’s what we do. Carbonara, properly made, doesn’t need cream or anything to […]
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Welcome to our homeschool week and how I plan and work with our son to home educate him. If you follow us on our Facebook or Instagram you will know that whilst I have one child in school, I also home educate our son. This is how we do it. I plan his work and […]
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We are 17 days post the day we realised we probably had Covid19. It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster time. We’ve gone from feeling ok, to feeling really crap, a very poorly teenager, to feeling like we were on the mend, out of isolation but then also feeling a host of things that appear […]
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This is a proper rant and I stand firmly by this statement that “wellness practitioners” are the scourge of social media and cause more harm than good. We all know them. The self styled “health practioners” of social media. They fall into two catagories on my feed. Either a mum blogger who’s signed up to […]
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Welcome to Meal Plan Monday, here we are again and this week I am sharing about how eating gluten free isn’t as hard as you think. It may seem a bit of a rant but hopefully it isn’t and is helpful. When the husband and I first got together (my children like to remind me […]
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