Dear Virgin Media About those scam calls we have been getting? We have a home phone. A landline. We never use it. We have it because even if we don’t have it you still charge us for having a landline and our bill doesn’t change. This makes no sense in itself but is another rant […]
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What IS the point of Mosquitoes? Before this post goes any further, I would like to point out that it’s not a science or medical post and if you did happen to have information to show me that there is SOME point to mosquitoes I would be grateful to hear it. I have lived all […]
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I am a swim mum. My children both have swimming lessons weekly, and we visit our local leisure center, for this. We use the pool, and then we shower and go home. I loathe public swimming pools, but because I believe that swimming is an important life skill for kids to learn, we go, and […]
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Trying to sell stuff on Facebook Marketplace is making me lose my mind. Image by Gerd Altmann I am on a bit of a summer declutter mission, and clearing out a lot of junk, tat, things my kids don’t wear anymore, or play with anymore and random stuff we don’t use or need. Most of […]
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I have turned into Miss Manners, or some sort of grumpy old lady, but I am about to deliver a little lecture. It is Friday, and you all know I like a little rant of a Friday morning… It goes like this: It’s rude to not turn up when you have arranged an appointment. If […]
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We live in an age where people now use social media to communicate, and to interact with each other. People form communities via social networks and they are an incredibly useful tool. They are also a space for people to abuse and to behave in a way that would get them a slap in real […]
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WARNING. This is A RANTY POST. It is partly tongue in cheek, because I try to be vaguely witty and sarcastic in my grumpiness but it is also a reminder to people that there are people out there who are TIRED, very tired, and not by choice. If you choose to stay up all night […]
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My small boy faithfully collected lots of Fifa World Cup football stickers this summer, alongside watching the World Cup. He wasn’t able to collect all of them and the are not available in shops. You can buy them on Amazon on eBay but the cost has been vastly inflated, and this had made him rather […]
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This week, I told a fellow mother off. I gave her my opinion on something she was doing, actually allowing her child to do. It is rare of me to do that. There is nothing worse, I think than when other mothers give each other a hard time, for what we are doing! But, I […]
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There are some rules… E mail is a widely used form of communication. I send a lot and I get a lot. I often read through over one hundred a day, and that’s not a lot compared to others. Things that annoy me when people use e-mail but forget the basic rules. 1. When someone […]
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