The Sardine Tin came up with what I considered to be an inspired idea: a Mystery Blog Swap. The issues I have been having with technology of late meant that I have had to wait until now to post some absolutely brilliant advice by.....you didn't think I was actually going to tell you, did you? Have a guess whilst you read*. Dogs and kids are a great combination, but these days there are less children than ever before growing up … [Read more...]
Recipe for Disaster
Take one sleep-deprived husband, two small perky children, one hot cup of coffeee and a momentary lapse in concentration. Mix. This is certainly the best recipe for disaster I've found of late. My laptop has suffered 30% burns and will require significant grafting for recovery. It, of course, has all my personal details, my research for articles I write for Brew Drinking Thinkings, all our photographs. Basically everything that makes my … [Read more...]
How to make Skittles from juice bottles
I should 'fess up now and tell you that I let my children drink Fruit Shoots (the releveance to making a garden skittles game will become clear shortly.) I know that this confession will bring forth a torrent of abuse from committed members of Mumsnet, but I can't keep it a secret any more. Admittedly they don't have them every day, but the sports bottles are brilliant for drinking when out and about and they really like them. They also happen to … [Read more...]
Chilling out in the DG Garden
It's been a really stressful few days, so much so that I have left myself only a week to organise PDs birthday party. It all got a bit on top of me yesterday and I really thought I was going burst with anger and frustration and the weariness that comes with days of interrupted sleep. And yet we girls ended up laughing and giggling and covered in paint. We painted some stones that we found a few weeks ago on a Suffolk beach (I always follow … [Read more...]
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 doing up a flat he bought in Blackheath and we had been together for a couple of months, enjoying weekends together having breakfast on the balcony and lunches in the pub. He casually … [Read more...]
The Extraordinary people of Wootton Bassett
I had an other post scheduled for this evening but I have put it off. I have just finished watching a behind-the-scenes story of Royal Wootton Bassett, the Wiltshire town that made news across the world for the show of respect it has given to each and every member of the Armed Forces that has been repatriated after losing their lives in the ongoing war in Afghanistan and Iraq. I am overwhelmed with sadness and pride. Sadness that we have lost … [Read more...]
Magpie Monday & charity shopping: pretty things bought for a good cause
I confess that this has been one of those weeks that strikes periodically: the kind of week that passes you by. And it's not because you've done nothing, but because you have been trying to do too much, worrying about the things that aren't getting done, and before you know it, you haven't done anything to the best of your ability. Throw in a low period in the neverending cycle that is PND, which leaves you fighting to motivate yourself, … [Read more...]
