Family

Today is the last full day of school holidays. Yes I know I keep banging on about it but it really has been a loooonnnnnggg old affair. Just a weekend…

The last three weeks have been a bit of a tough time. After enjoying two blissful kid free weeks my offspring returned home and for those of you not in…

Yesterday was a perfectly perfect English summers day. We have, unusually, had a few of them this summer but for the last 2 weeks there has been an abundance of…

Apologies in advance, this is rather long and not very wicked but oddly feels very intimate to me. Today is International Woman’s Day. My Twitter timeline has been full of…

Today on Twitter (25th June 2013) I got involved in a conversation with a number of people about appropriate or more worryingly inappropriate dress and tattoo adornment for older women.…

Today is our first wedding anniversary! I can’t believe it has already been a year, where on earth does the time go? Although I think the answer here is probably…

I am on holiday… or more correctly WE are on holiday. This will be our first family holiday together since Sir moved to the UK to live with me and…

24th November 2011 I nearly didn’t write one of these Thanksgiving posts this year. I think because he is not here today I have felt rather removed from the whole…

5th November 2011 Remember, remember the Fifth of November, the Gunpower Treason and Plot, I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot. Tonight is Bonfire Night in…

26th September 2011 I just noticed that Josie’s prompt this week for her writing workshop is ‘time’ and so here I am wasting a bit more of it to write…

19th April 2011 Once upon a time my son came home from school with a reading book entitled ‘The Christmas Story’. He sat next to me after dinner and started…

25th November 2010 I have 2 other posts already written and waiting to be posted but I have decided to put them on hold to just say a little something…