Author: Samantha Griscti

We are currently half way through Mental Health Awareness week and it has got me thinking about the affects that social media can have on your mental health. Nowadays mindlessly...

Tuesday 12th May The bird is dead Wednesday 13th May The spider we caught last week has been released….we couldn’t risk any more blood on our hands! Also try as...

Tuesday 5th May   ?????????????   Wednesday 6th May F&N have fallen out so many times today its been like I’m the referee at a miniature wrestling night.   Is...

Tuesday 28th April I overheard my 8 year old telling his sister how she was ruining his day, she subsequently screamed back that he had in fact ruined her entire...

    Tuesday 21st April The school keep calling me and leaving me voicemails its getting embarrassing now as I am not intentionally dodging their phone calls I just never...

   Homeschooling has been tough and I must admit I think the concept of daily worksheets being set virtually for my children to work through is a bit tedious. Trying...

[gallery size="large" columns="2" ids="152,150"]   I love sewing and always have various projects on the go meaning my scrap fabric bag is huge! As any fellow sewer will understand you...

Thursday 16th April 2020   Early morning start today after little sleep, this is fast becoming my daily mantra. Darcy is cutting her front tooth - she does not teeth...

A few years ago I posted on Facebook asking for book recommendations and I was amazed at how many amazing suggestions I got. My friends came up trumps and I...

Welcome to the lockdown diaries! Here I will attempt to keep some kind of diary of day to day lockdown as a little memoir to look back on in years...

  The news at the moment has been discussing some disturbing topics but also highlighting some interesting opinions. As a woman I can’t say that I am especially surprised at...

I have yet another threenager in my house. I felt smug that my kids appeared to bypass the dreaded ‘terrible twos’ that everyone talks about, I naively thought that that was the...

  I have a dream, a dream of no more nappies in my life, a humble, somewhat silly dream, but after 5 years of changing my two kids arses it...

It’s currently a Saturday and I am sat at my computer the aim to be working on our websites algorithms and improve our organic presence on google (bore!!) and my...