Yesterday morning a friend drew my attention to an article in the Daily Mail… don’t ask me what my friend was doing reading the Daily Mail; I will never know. She’s pregnant. We’ll blame it on Baby Brain and say no more of it. The article was entitled, Fifth of Read more…
As you may know, we moved house recently. At the old house, my electricity was supplied by Eon. I never had any problem with them, so decided to transfer my account to my new address. I had already applied for their Warm Home Discount scheme when I moved. When Read more…
Parenting is probably the one thing in life where people aren’t really open to each other’s approaches. I mean, in theory, yes: we’re all different, we all raise our children slightly differently, and the world marches on. In practise though, if you’re doing something very differently to how I Read more…
If you’re a regular reader of the Daily Mail, you will have read yesterday that more boys aged 15 have a smartphone than live with their father. This is the latest report from the Centre for Social Justice, an independent think tank set up in 2004 by Iain Duncan Smith Read more…
The other day, a lady on Twitter was posting about how she’d eaten loads even though she wasn’t hungry. I tweeted back that I had too and she said, “why do our brains do that to us?” I replied that I didn’t know about hers, but I was fairly sure Read more…
You know what really irritates me? Parenting experts. Or really, any sort of parenting advice. We don’t need your advice! It’s not just the “experts” and the books I dislike though; I also hate all the random, unsolicited advice you just seem to be a target for when you’re a Read more…