*rant alert* My child ‘won’ a Young Writers competition and is going to be published
Today the 9yr old came out of school so full of proud he was steaming at the ears with it. As we walked to the car he couldn’t stop telling me all about it. Not ONLY had he won the school’s ‘Achievers Certificate’ for a ‘fabulous piece of descriptive writing’, but he had ALSO “won a competition with a poem I wrote a-a-a-ges ago and there is a letter in my book bag and it’s going to be in...
Get your hands off my Dyson…
The teen was watching this on YouTube last night. Later I caught him gazing lasciviously at my Dyson with a screwdriver in hand. Yes really. If he takes my vacuum apart I am holding Dyson entirely responsible…
A Quick But Important Plea.
Last year we were thrilled to be winners of the Gurgle Award for ‘Best Working Mum’s Blog’, sponsored by ELC and Mothercare. Voting is open once again, and we would totally really love it if you could vote for us. Winning these awards is a massive achievement for us – and we can only do it if you like us enough to vote for us. We know you love what we do, we certainly know you love the competitions we can offer...
The Great British Sunday – we know what you’re ALL doing…
It always makes me smile that this is how our ‘Most Visited Posts’ page looks most Sundays… A nation of Sunday Comfort Food cooks, perchance? (by the way, if you’re looking for the deliciously yummy recipes you remember from your school days, you can see them here – School Dinners Recipes)
Fabulous Bakin’ Boys – You Lazy Spellers, You.
I love the Fabulous Bakin’ Boys products. I know, I shouldn’t – but I do. I have done ever since they brought out their very first yoghurt-coated flapjacks, wa-a-a-y back when I was working in a shop. Seriously – how can you NOT love a company which brands itself as ‘Grumpy Free Baking’? But. Oh dear, oh dear. Today they made me Very Grumpy Indeed. I nabbed a box of the mini cupcakes from my local...
Our Top Ten Tips on Successfully Working From Home
It’s living the dream, isn’t it? Successfully Working From Home? That’s what I’m told often , anyway. Fact is, for anyone that actually DOES it, they know it is very far from living the dream. Most would call it ‘living-the-do-half-as-well-at-everything-nightmare’ a lot of the time. But, on those days that you get it right? Oh yes – it’s those times that make me realise I could never go...