To celebrate my daughters 15th birthday I have been thinking about the things I have learned. 1-It’s very annoying when she borrows something of mine and it looks ten times better on her. 2-They change their minds a lot, quickly and without telling anyone. Mine loves fennel. I personally can’t stand it. Dutifully as a mother, I made space in my veg patch and lovingly grew some fennel for her. On proudly showed her what I have grown for her, her response is in a very matter of fact ... VIEW POST

15 years ago I was very uncomfortably waddling around a hospital ward. Being 8 ½ months pregnant with pre-eclampsia the only thing I could do was waddle and wait. I had indeed waddled to my routine anti-natal class a week earlier to give in my routine sample. I then watched my midwife transform from her normal quiet calm self into a whirlwind organising ambulances and a hospital bed. Safe to say she didn’t like my sample. ... VIEW POST

The whole beauty thing has never come easily to me. My mother was of the ‘lippy and blue eye shadow’ era – need a say more? Tips and hints weren’t really passed on; instead, I have had to learn about beauty as I went. So here are the things that I wished I learnt a long time ago. It’s a myth that having every expensive potion makes you beautiful – It just makes you poorer and the manufacturers richer. If you can afford expensive products then that’s fine but half the trick of the ... VIEW POST

When I worked in an office full time, the kids and I could be out of the house about 10 hours each day 5 days a week. So it was never a question if the kids should do housework, for my own sanity they had to. I am not talking anything along the lines of child slave labour, contra to my children’s belief, but they both had to help with things they could manage. Now that I work from home I have wondered if I should still expect them to help around the house. I am sure the same question has ... VIEW POST