Death, Nutella and the best way to kill a mouse.

As I stepped bleary eyed into the Wet Room this morning, I checked the floor carefully. Walking barefoot in a house with potties stationed at every door and a recalcitrant dog who refuses to crap outside is always a risk so it pays to look where you are going. In this instance though, I [...]

Wonderful, wonderful Bromley, and why I live there.

Where we live has nothing to do with me. Actually, that’s not true: I found the house, but the reason we have a house in Bromley is down to a random conversation DH had with one of the boys at work one day way back when we were first dating. He had just finished [...]

Togetherness at The Gallery

Week nights at DG Manor are often tough, and by this hour I am usually counting the minutes until DH walks through the door by this point in the day. Being self-employed, he doesn’t have conventional 9-5 working hours (who does these days?) so there is no guarantee that he will see [...]

Seven ways you can use your baby weight to lose your baby weight

 It’s a common desire, albeit after you’ve given birth and spent a few months adjusting to what it means to be responsible for a small crying baby 24 hours a day, to want to do something about your appearance. There are some lucky people who seem to effortlessly be back in their pre-pregnancy Jeans [...]

Dear 2011: a letter to the year ahead

With apologies to Kat at 3 Bedroom Bungalow.…

Dear 2011,

I don’t know how well you know 2010. Frankly, I’m hoping that you two weren’t that close, since I have very little to say about her that isn’t unpleasant. 2010 was not the nicest of years as far as I could tell. It’s been [...]

Banana Bread and the ongoing pink bathroom saga.

Banana Bread is a very good place to start if you are new to baking. It’s also a good way to use up over-ripe bananas that have been thrown around a bit by your lovely almost-nine-month-old. The Pocket Dictator and I rolled up our sleeves and put on our aprons this afternoon to get [...]

The Good Wife Guide #1

Picture credit The last time I wrote about a Wife-guide, I got into the kind of trouble you never expect, but that has the potential to divide a family until the end of time. In making a point, I didn’t choose my words carefully enough and almost had to stop blogging altogether. So [...]

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