The Chicken Run – The Day The Chickens Came
It’s been running through my head for a week; “The chickens are coming! The chickens are coming!” We have been talking about keeping chickens for… oh, probably 23 years. Ever since we bought our house, and saw that the deeds allow us to keep 12 chickens and a cockerel. I mean really, if the deeds of your house state it, it’s almost a moral obligation, isn’t it? But we’ve never got further than...
Batman Moleskine – Finally, a notebook for boy teens #BackToSchool
Tomorrow my boy starts school. No, he’s not five; No.1 turned 16 in January, and after two years of Home Ed he’s re-entering the system for his A levels. So the last few weeks have been a weird combination of grumpy denial (I do NOT like being retsricted to school term dates again!), floating sadness (we’re going to miss hi and his mugs of tea) and excited preparations. About the only things we’ve not had to...
Toasted To the Top with Breville’s Warburton Toaster
Toast. What on earth would we do without toast, eh? Ever since my first pregnancy 16 years ago, I haven’t been able to face milky cereal for breakfast. Just… no. No no no. But a hot strong mug of choice (tea or coffee, as the mood takes me. I know, I’m a rebel.) accompanied by a couple of slices of your finest crunchy bread? Now THAT’S a breakfast for kings. But it’s never a boring same-ole-same-ole...
Personalised Gifts – Pre-Christmas Shopping List
I have written before about how much I love the personalised mugs from YourDesign.co.uk – there’s nothing cheesy about a really special favourite photograph decorating your morning coffee. Search for ‘personalised’ on Not on The High Street, and a whole array of stylish, thoughtful and well-designed gifts jump out (I have just snagged two of these amazing personalised wooden polaroid frames for my own...
Meet Keris Stainton – it’s the Blog Tour for Starring Kitty
I ‘met’ Keris around 8 or 9 years ago in an online forum – we’ve not made it to ‘real life’ meeting yet, mostly because we’re at the opposite ends of the country. But Keris is properly really lovely. And in those intervening 8 or 9 years has happened (with the help of a huge amount of talent, dedication and hard work. And Twitter.) to go from aspiring-author to a successful published author...