This summer was a riot! Quite literally. Everything stared off fairly ok. Things normally start off that way with kids and animals though, don’t they? But by the middle of August we had descended into the family equivalent of Black Friday in Macy’s. Total and utter mayhem. Rules? What’s that?…
View PostHands up who has been on a girls holiday. I hear they are a little crazy. There’s nothing like a holiday to make me hot foot it to the gym. I’ve never been on a girls trip abroad before so now the time has come. 10 school friends and I…
View PostMy mum asked me 2 days ago if I had given up blogging. “Yikes” I thought aloud!!!! “No Mum, life just got in the way” “You’re dead right” she replied – Mum’s are good like that. And now I find myself here at my kitchen table in an extraordinarily quiet…
View PostThe ice-cream van is much maligned in this house. A little piece of me dies every time I hear the familiar, gut-wrenching jingle. It normally signals begging, pleading, imploring and general freaking out from the under 5 footers & it also normally occurs at either dinner or bedtime. I, of…
View PostI sit staring at my phone. With a feeling of mild trepidation, fear and worry. No I’m not willing it to ring……sitting solemnly waiting for that call that will deliver some life altering news and send me in a trajectory unheard of and unknown to the likes of ordinary me.…
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