Author: Samantha Griscti

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions.  I think that if you want to make changes in your life, then you shouldn’t wait for a new year to do it....

I’ve never felt particularly affected by social media.  I’ve listened when others have mentioned their dislike for it and when they’ve explained that it creates a negativity in their head...

This week marked the end of an era for our house, my eldest has finished primary school marking the end of 7 years and the start of a totally new...

Nothing says half-term like a crazy woman stomping around the house with a bin bag threatening to throw away the toys that are still all over the floor even though...

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 -...

Am I surprised by today’s news? Not in the slightest.  I’m angry, pissed off, upset, astounded and exacerbated. But not for one second am I surprised by the behaviour of...

With every one of my children, there has been at least one TV programme that becomes an obsession for them.  My son couldn’t get enough of Thomas the Tank Engine....

It was my 36th Birthday recently and I finally got round to booking a tattoo that i’ve been planning for ages. It’s not a midlife crisis. Honest. A midlife crisis...

How can a woman feel safe in 2021? Today's news relaying the truly despicable treatment of Sarah Everard has shocked us all. The information coming out regarding her murder at...

My social media memories have informed me that I’ve been writing this blog for a year now, this is quite a milestone moment for me as at first I really...

We’ve all been there haven’t we, a photo gets taken of us and although no one else can see it, you hate it and feel a slight embarrassment at not...

Here's my take on this weeks events. Monday saw the much anticipated return to school for my children which was delightful not only for me but for my poor bloody...

So here we are at the end of another term of homeschooling and here are some things that I have learnt about myself. I do not enjoy being with my...

Day 5687 in lockdown (I joke it's actually day 14 but who’s counting anyway eh???) Today has been super tough I’ve felt so extremely uptight I can’t explain it… it...

Happy belated new year! So 2021 started off with a bang eh? No celebration and a fast track into national lockdown. What a total clusterfuck!  I find myself homeschooling yet...

And so the news that we’ve all been waiting to hear has finally been announced: the UK will enter a second full lockdown to last at least a month. Not...

[embed]https://twitter.com/liamgallagher/status/1313442350337871872?s=20[/embed] Facing the prospect of unemployment is scary at any time, but during a global pandemic it is even scarier - the world as we know it has changed, work...

I have new found sympathy for my parents who repeatedly took me to places of interest when I was younger only for them to be faced with an unenthused, bored...

Following on from my last blog media and misogyny I wanted to find out who actually runs our major media outlets and discuss why peddling misogyny within our society is...

I want to talk a little bit about media and social responsibility, how the expectation is that the two should marry together in an open, honest reporting of the news....

Like many other women I have been tagged in the #challengeaccepted craze spreading through social media channels. Usually I dismiss these tagged challenges partly out of laziness but mostly because...

Lockdown and the enforced slowing down has afforded us a rare luxury to question things taken as 'normal. It has thrown up interesting debates and it has highlighted many areas...

Tuesday 7th July I moved the sofa today and as I did it something clicked in my back and now I’m in agony! Wednesday 8th July Back is still horrendous...

Tuesday 23rd June 12th Week of Lockdown….. Wednesday 24th June Social distancing rules will be relaxed from July 4th 1m distance expected, 2m advised. Pubs, restaurants and hairdressers are able...