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I’ve been putting this off as long as humanly possible, but finally my eldest daughter wore me down and we agreed that she could do the...

On February 18th I gave up FaceBook for lent. To some of you, that would be no great hardship, but form me – let’s just say it was a...

I don’t have a best friend. Don’t misunderstand me, I have good friends – very good friends. But I don’t have a BFF. Perhaps I just have...

I wrote this short post on an old travel blog in 2012 whilst travelling around Brazil. It was torturous to write because the bereavement...

I apologise, I pretty much fell off the grid yesterday when I’d hoped to blog on alternate days forever more (ha ha). But I have a very...

The clink-chink of glass on glass burst the bubble of Kate’s day-dream. She had been quite enjoying that brief break from Helena’s party,...

This piece is actually an ‘about Flags and Lucky Bags’ kind of deal (see the last post). Well, no it isn’t really, it’s more a tale of...

It isn’t easy being six. It isn’t easy being dragged out of the coolness of an infant school classroom, plasticine models left...

I wouldn’t call myself overly fashion concious, but now I’ve hit my 40’s, I believe I know what suits me – and I wear that. A lifetime of...

Before I begin, the above photo is not me. I’m an exhibitionist, yes, but I haven’t completely lost my senses. It’s like this, I seem to...