This morning, the above photo came up on my Timehop. It’s from two years ago today. The below is the story of what happened on that day. It’s raining. When we woke up this morning, the roof had leaked again, and I had to call the council repairs department. Our Read more…
My challenge for December is to post a selfie on social media every day. I’m three weeks in now, and nearing the end of my challenge. This week, I’ve been ill all week… as you can probably tell from the photos. I promise I’ve not been wearing this scarf Read more…
Last week I reviewed Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon. In my review I mentioned that while reading that book, I spent a lot of time Googling things and buying related books. This is one of those books: As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Read more…
AB InBev’s SmartBarley℠ enables UK Barley farmers to lower their environmental impact The SmartBarley℠ Initiative established by AB InBev will allow farmers to compare their barley production with other growers around the world, enabling them to tweak their production using other farmers insights. Although this will be the first time Read more…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about how since we moved, S has been a lot closer to Ted than ever before. I was worried that she was relying on him for comfort so much. I felt that I must be failing as a mother, that she Read more…
Alison Cragg blogs at Messed Up Mum, a lifestyle and beauty blog. She is a twenty-six-year-old, recently single parent of one. Josh was born in May 2013. This is a day in her life… I’ve agreed to do a guest post about how my usual day goes as I did Read more…
Suddenly, seemingly from nowhere (for nowhere, read probably nursery), S is pointing out letters and numbers. She’s been able to recognise the number 8 for a while, and enjoys pointing it out wherever she sees it. I thought that was a one-off though, because it’s kind of distinctive. The other day, Read more…
What do you do in case of a financial emergency? In my pre-S days, an emergency tended to go along the lines of “omg, I’ve had such a bad day, I absolutely must go shopping immediately.” Or perhaps, “wow, I really need a holiday…” The days, my financial emergencies are Read more…
I started reading Far From The Tree by Andrew Solomon months ago… literally. It’s taken me ages to read – but that’s more down to the fact of my moving house and having been stupidly busy and lazy lately. This book is quite large, and therefore not very transportable – it’s Read more…
I had a really hectic week this week; I had appointments and general gubbins to attend to every day, as well as trying to get some actual work done – not to mention Christmas shopping, housework and other such duties. I was feeling overwrought and fed up. On top Read more…
When a relationship breaks down, parents often try their hardest to do what is best for the children involved. For me, that meant removing S’s father from our lives completely. For a lot of parents, it means biting your tongue and trying to be pleasant to your ex, for the Read more…
I figured since I am asking other people to write about a day in their lives, I should probably write about my own day! I’ve written a few of these posts before, but since the last one a lot has changed in my life… So here is a day in Read more…
Last week, I went to parents’ evening at S’s nursery. I talked to her keyworker about how she’s getting on at nursery, how she gets on with the other children, all the usual things you talk about at these things. Then I was given S’s Learning Journeys to Read more…
When I had the opportunity to review the Breville Halo Plus Health Fryer my first thought was, oh, sure, I like chips! When I was a kid, my mum had one of those deep fat fryers; I remember it making loud bubbling noises in the corner of the kitchen, the stink Read more…
At the moment, I’m reading On Writing by Stephen King. It turns out Mr King has an irrational (or perhaps entirely rational) hatred of the passive tense. And adverbs. For those who don’t know, verbs are either active or passive. When a verb is active, the subject of a sentence Read more…
Lisa blogs at Mummascribbles, and lives in Hertfordshire with her partner, her toddler Zach, and a cat. This is a day in her life… 5.45am The dreaded alarm goes off. Most of the time I tend to wake up before the alarm and lay there waiting for it to Read more…