If anyone asked me, at the moment, I would say that this stage of parenting we are going through with a tweenager, rapidly running into actual teenaghood, is the hardest bit we have been through yet. I know that all stages of parenting can be hard and they all have their challenges and at the […]
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I am going to let you in on a little secret. I don’t actually enjoy shopping. I do it because, well, frankly, I have to. I am a busy working mum, and finding time to do the more mundane shopping jobs for my family and I, is often a challenge, so when I can, I […]
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*this post is written partly as a cathartic self expressive exercise, and also because I’m rubbish at explaining how I feel in person. I’ve come a long way on this mental health journey of mine, and where as once I would have just kept going until I broke, I now have the ability to recognize better […]
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I don’t know about you, but I have a small list things around the house that need doing that I loathe. Everyone has a domestic chore they hate, don’t they? They are things that have to be done, in order to keep the house from either smelling/or becoming less than pleasant to live in. In […]
READ MORESome sad news from our pet’s corner of the Mad House of Cats & Babies. Our smallest furry friend, Scruffy the Hamster, died, last month. He was much loved, even if he was small, grumpy and had a tendency to be slightly smelly despite me cleaning his cage often. He was very comical in his […]
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In Flanders Fields, a man I never knew… In a corner of a quiet war graveyard, down a street in an inconspicuous little town in Belgium, with fields of corn on one side, and storehouses crowding out the horizon on the other, there’s a grave. It’s the grave of a man I never knew. Who […]
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Can you spot the bee?
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Please do not tell my child to take their glasses off… This is a rant. Aimed at no doubt the thoughtless amongst us. My child wears glasses. She has inherited not only my short-sighted vision, but also astigmatism and a genetic eyelid condition that means that she will, for the rest of her life, either […]
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We are a consumer family. I know that. We rely on a lot of items of convenience, to get us through our daily lives. It’s something I half feel guilty about and half accept, simply because life for us is busy and crazy and I simply cannot sit down and stress over every little thing. […]
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Does anyone remember spirographs and using those plastic shapes to draw endless patterns in multicolours. Ok, so I am old, I know but that was a huge and fun part of my childdhood and kept me and my friends busy for hours trying to make the neatest and prettiest patterns. Remember making these? We thought […]
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