• Life

    Happy New Year!

    So here we are, ready to enter a brand spanking new year. The year two thousand and seventeen. It wil be my 39th year on this here planet. BLOODY HELL.

  • Christmas,  Life

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

    Christmas is my favourite time of year, definitely my hap-happiest season of all. I watch too many made for TV Christmas films and aspire to romance that doesn’t exist that way, to live in a lovely lodge type home in…

  • Parenting

    Sweet child o’ mine.

    In 2010 I was pregnant, I would have told you that if my child were a girl she wouldn’t always wear pink, if it were a boy he wouldn’t always wear blue. I would have told you that my child…

  • Life

    Lessons I have learned. Well, some of them.

    Six years ago I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of our first-born (she was late already) and the start of a new and exciting chapter to my life. The chapter where I become a stay at home mummy (or SAHM…

  • Parenting

    Perfect Mother?

    Recently I had the (mis)fortune to read a blog post about the Perfect Mother. I’m not going to link it but to loosely paraphrase, us ‘honest’ mummy bloggers need to pull ourselves together, make a from scratch Annabel Karmel meal…