Dear readers, I am writing to report a car crime.  A very serious crime where I am the victim. And the perpetrator. I am not sure whether it comes under vandalism, gross negligence or wanton flouting of health and safety, but the interior of my car resembles a skip.  And not one outside a nice [click here to read more]

Wishing you all a Happy Easter! My kids are already tucking into Easter Eggs and, having successfully given up biscuits for Lent, you would have thought I would have bought myself a huge packet of bourbons to celebrate, but there isn’t a biscuit in the house. Tsk. I am foregoing the Monday Club tomorrow because, [click here to read more]

I was sent an infographic link and normally, I would ignore such things.  However, having lived and worked in a boarding school for four years where I (and my matrons) nit-checked 48 girls every Tuesday evening, I thought I would share this delightful (and very long!) infographic with you.  It’s actually very good and, most [click here to read more]

Yesterday I found myself on Upper Street in Islington, London.  I had won some tickets via the Country Wives blog to the Country Living Show in the Business Design Centre.  Now, in itself this is very nice for me but nothing to blog about….except I used to work on Upper Street and it was (shockingly) [click here to read more]

Is it just me that wants to slap Dora the Explorer around the chops and wish that if Swiper the Fox was going to swipe anything, couldn’t he just go whole hog and nab Dora herself?  He could deposit her in the bog of eternal stench, across the realms of sanity, through the field of annoying [click here to read more]

Now, before you switch over and get all snarky about my unadulterated self-promotion may I mention that a lot of my readers are non-bloggers.  So for all you bloggers who are reading this and thinking ‘I hate bloggers that beg for votes’ let me stop those thoughts in their tracks and assure you that this [click here to read more]

Brace yourselves, I’m going to talk about the weather.  More specifically how two days ago I couldn’t get into work because of the snow and this morning I have been in the garden, without a coat on, pruning and raking and leaving the patio doors open because it is so gorgeous out there.  I mean, [click here to read more]

A short post this week as I am sitting in a coffee shop waiting for a hair appt.  I know, get me. Living the life. Today I wanted to share, what I think, is a great idea that my kids’ school is doing for Comic Relief. On Friday, my daughter brought home an unpainted cupcake money-box – with [click here to read more]

As today is International Women’s Day, I thought it appropriate to mention a story I found on twitter this week that got my juices flowing, and not in a good way. Apparently there is now a MILF diet.  Yes, a MILF diet, FFS.  For those of you (and there can’t be many) who don’t know what [click here to read more]

No, not the Michael Jackson kind, but the marathon, midnight walk for breast cancer awareness with lots of ladies in decorated bras rasing lots of money. I signed up for it this year but, with a lot of thought and realistic thinking, I have decided not to partake.  Mainly because I cannot commit to the [click here to read more]

New post over on Supper & Syntax….Not quite the Bloomsbury Set.

I love winter. The intimacy of it – snuggling up, cosying down, huddling together. I love scarves and tights and gloves. I love Christmas, New Year, Valentines Day and my birthday. And then comes spring…that first glimpse of sun, the lifting of the soul at the sepia glow of sunlight on trees….my spirits are lifted [click here to read more]