{All about me}

Once upon a time there was a young vibrant twenty-something who travelled the world for as a nanny and maternity nurse and fell in love with a charming man she met through an internet dating agency, because young vibrant twenty-somethings are far too busy to spend time being bothered by drunk men in horribly dark clubs.

They got married, got a dog and bought a house in the suburbs. They had the obligatory two children (three, if you count the dog. Four if you include the husband.) They added a holiday property on the Kent Coast to which they retreat at weekends.

And now the snot-covered thirty-something stays at home, raising her girls, training her dog and trying to be the perfect 1950′s housewife whilst her beloved DH goes into London every day to earn a crust. She seeks solace on her laptop and blogs about her total inability to fuse the words life and style so that she actually achieves her dream of Domestic Goddessery.

• In her dreams she succeeds in finishing her parenting book and runs her own business, drives a Nissan Figaro custom painted in Cath Kidston florals and has a pair of Deer Hounds in her Country Home.

• In her husband’s dreams he writes travel books, has a pair of Jack Russells and they have a Housekeeper.

• In her children’s dreams they have a Dog Rescue Centre, cake for breakfast, a pink house and someone who will carry them wherever they wish to go.

• In the Wonder Hound’s dreams it’s quiet.

LBG = Little Big Girl, formerly Pocket Dictator , 3 years
Dimpled Assassin = her little sister, 22 months
DH = Darling Husband, 30-something
WH = Wonder Hound, aka Nugget the Jack Russell, 5 years
Granny M = My mother (aka The Mothership), don’t ask her age!