Making your home look as grand as Buckingham Palace can be done, and you need not spend £1000 or over to do it! Don’t believe this? Well, read on and you might just become a believer. Pay attention to all the trimmings No, the trimmings on your Christmas dinner aren’t the only ones that you […]
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Why #MeToo matters so much
Have you seen all the #MeToo posts? They are by women who are putting up their virtual hands to say that they’ve been sexually assaulted or harassed too, in response to the Weinstein scandal. Women like you and I. It’s important to show how wide-spread this is and how, until now, so many women dealt with […]
This has been a week for a little nasal gazing
Every flipping year. It’s the same. Just when I think I’ve avoided getting the back-to-school lurgy, I succumb. Wouldn’t it be good if the frequency of snot-storms reduced as you got older? A tiny bit of compensation maybe. This year’s version has been particularly horrible – snotty and bad-tempered. And far worse, of course, than […]
The grumblings of Adventure Ted.
An old post, but reinstated for Super Sister who had the school animal at home last week. Last Tuesday boy three brought Adventure Ted home from nursery. This was a very exciting event. Ted is a slightly grubby teddy bear wearing ill-fitting shorts and a slightly sneery expression. The idea, the nursery ladies said, was […]