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Confessions of a Single Mum

The ups, the downs and sideways views of life as a single parent

Music Mojo Where Are You

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My music mojo seems to have upped and left me. I don't know if this is just an age ting or just because teen music these days is just so bad. I use to like all the latest songs as much as the next and till fairly recently could be caught strutting my stuff in the kitchen to the latest beat.  But a recent car journey with the teenager and top 40 CD left me running for ear muffs. Didn't help matters that I didn't have a clue who any of the warblers were and had to ask the teenager on every song ... VIEW POST

Ohh I Got All Crafty

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One of the side effects of being a new gardener, and getting old according to my daughter, is that I tend to get drawn to all the gardening programmes on TV. Monty and Alan are my new best friends. Not literally obviously as they don't pop in for a cup of tea and natter, but I have got them sky plussed to watch when the kids are out to save them moaning. ... VIEW POST

Me Revolutionary? Apparently I am

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According to my neighbours I am the rather revolutionary one in our terrace. I live in a terrace of ten houses where the ages are equally split between half of us not owning a bus pass whilst the other half have their bus passes.  All the back gardens are fairly open with only waist high fences or hedges separating us. Not the most private of spaces but it does have a communal spirit when were all out in the gardens chatting over the fences. ... VIEW POST

Red Lipstick Perfection – A Bad Sign

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I should have seen the signs all those years ago when my daughter, then a wobbly toddler, found my lipstick. Though this seems to be the given right that they will always find your makeup bag, she didn't just find my makeup bag but indeed my most prized lipstick. I had a Clarins lipstick in the most beautiful shade of red. Red not being an everyday colour for me it was tucked away for special occasions and until I was brave enough to wear it. ... VIEW POST