Archives for July 2011
Seven Words
Doing It All for Aleyna‘s ‘Seven Words’ linky is about describing your thoughts right now in … you guessed it … seven words. Harder than you might think actually, but here is what I came up with: Happiness in the chaos of small boys Why don’t you linky up here and have a go?
Making Shortbread in the Real World
Now the summer holidays are upon us what could be nicer, I thought to myself yesterday, than to attempt a spot of baking with three year old E. Shortbread is pretty simple, isn’t it? We’ll give that a go.I’d popped on to the BBC website, which is always my first stop for spontaneous cooking, and […]
Listography – 5 Lessons I Learnt From My Parents
What a great listography topic from Kate at Kate Takes 5 this week. Things we learnt from our parents. Where to start? Well, of course there’s all the usual swimming, reading, bike riding and then how about what to do when your cat is in labour, how to make the perfect G&T or how to adjust […]
Flash Back Friday – How did I get from there to here?
A friend who I haven’t seen since I left school recently posted this photo on Facebook. This is me (with the sunglasses) and my friend Ros at Glastonbury in 1995. We were 16 and that morning we’d sat our last GCSE exam. Eight of my best friends drove down to the festival from Stratford in two […]
Reasons to be Cheerful
So the news tells us there’s corruption everywhere, the economy is pretty shaky and now the weather’s gone down hill. Miserable, hey? Well maybe, but I’m not going to take this lying down. I’ve been looking at loads of blogs this week and came across Mummy from the Heart who hosts a weekly bloghop called ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’. […]
