Trick or treat?

Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed the pumpkin carving and costume making, the spooky food and the dark nights when I looked after kids, but hated getting home. Then followed an evening of getting up every five minutes for the doorbell only to find a bunch of spotty teenagers standing there wearing masks [...]

Trick or treat?

Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed the pumpkin carving and costume making, the spooky food and the dark nights when I looked after kids, but hated getting home. Then followed an evening of getting up every five minutes for the doorbell only to find a bunch of spotty teenagers standing there wearing masks [...]

A picture that paints a thousand words…

A picture that paints a thousand words…

56 days, 17 hours and 44 minutes, but who’s counting???

My Christmas countdown begins, not with the playing of Christmas music in high street stores from the beginning of October, but with the making of the cake. This always happens on my father’s birthday, since it has traditionally fallen in the middle of half-term, which meant that I could still do the cake even [...]

56 days, 17 hours and 44 minutes, but who’s counting???

My Christmas countdown begins, not with the playing of Christmas music in high street stores from the beginning of October, but with the making of the cake. This always happens on my father’s birthday, since it has traditionally fallen in the middle of half-term, which meant that I could still do the cake even [...]

56 days, 17 hours and 44 minutes, but who’s counting???

My Christmas countdown begins, not with the playing of Christmas music in high street stores from the beginning of October, but with the making of the cake. This always happens on my father’s birthday, since it has traditionally fallen in the middle of half-term, which meant that I could still do the cake even [...]