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 …