Year: 2022

I’m a sucker for reality TV, always have been. I just love it! I was looking forward to this year's I’m A Celebrity because it was back in Australia and...

We’ve just done something massive.  After years of saving we’ve just bought our first house. Over the past few years the idea of buying a house always seemed like an...

As a writer events happen and you feel an overwhelming urge to write about them. It can come from anywhere, a story in the news, something a friend tells me,...

My daughter made a friend recently - a little green cricket.  He’d come inside and lived predominantly on the ceiling in the kitchen and she decided that she loved him...

I don’t really know how to express my anger and frustration at what’s happened in America.  I know that abortion is a divisive subject matter but I simply can not...

Today I smashed through a parking barrier and completely destroyed it. It was most definitely not my finest moment! So let’s set the scene: I was driving out of a...

I hate gift shops. I’ve always found them over-priced and full to the rafters of novelty crap. Sadly the rest of my family LOVES them. They are drawn to them...

Both my daughters took to the stage in their first ever show this weekend. It would appear that I am officially a dance school mother. I’ve been quite smug so...

In case you missed it - today was World Book Day. Unsurprisingly, I almost did and had to cobble together a costume at the last minute. But I’ve come to...

My three-year-old is deep in the ‘mummy, watch me’ phase.  It’s horrendous. Every time she wants an audience, the expectation is that I’ll be there. And for the most part,...

Don’t you just love it when you suddenly remember a party that your kid’s supposed to be at on the day of the damn birthday? This was my Saturday -...