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#DoSomethingYummy – Eat Cake!

Cake

Today I had a huge pile of Mummy bloggers at my house and here is the massive pile of cake we had (in fact there was more, but I missed off some lovely biscuits!)         This is the advantage of living in St Albans; the Mummy Blogging capital of the world.  Lots […]

NHS: Is it Fair That People/Children Without Choice Don’t Get Help?

My head’s disagreeing with itself. It watched a program about the American situation with horror.  There are children without homes, and not getting anything to eat when they go home from school.  People are living in tent cities or storm drains.  It was like something out of the middle ages.  Of course, unlike us they […]

Surviving Mental Health for #DoSomethingYummy

Mental Health

This post is being written as part of the blog prompt for #DoSomethingYummy  from Typecast which is the campaign for CLIC Sargent Charity for children with cancer.  I’ve picked the prompt ‘Something I’ve survived‘.   Yummy Mummy Week is 10th-18th March, so if you haven’t had a chance to add your own post, you still have time. OR just […]

#DoSomethingYummy: Half Term and Two Year Old Birthdays

#DoSomethingYummy: Half Term and Two Year Old Birthdays

Cuteness alert! This wasn’t just any old half-term. This was the one where Little Dimples turned two and totally ‘got’ what a birthday was. So here she is singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to herself!     Oh and if you didn’t get the last few words, we reckon it was ‘and there you go’!   I […]

#DoSomethingYummy: A Warning From My Childhood: The Cinderella Complex

cinderella complex

This post is being written as part of the blog prompt for #DoSomethingYummy  from Typecast which is the campaign for CLIC Sargent Charity for children with cancer.  I’ve picked the prompt ‘What kind of family did you grow up in? ‘ I did some research into CLIC and found this info on their site ….. As the UK’s leading children’s […]

Jonny Reborn DVD Review: Baby’s first trip to the cinema

How I love my blog sometimes!  We are on a very strict budget of course with the big hairy northern one being made redundant.  We are OK, but it’s not a ‘good’ place out there in the job market and we are making sure that the redundancy package really stretches far.  So when I was […]

#DoSomethingYummy: Can you love two children the same amount?

Brother and sister

This post is being written as part of the blog prompt for #DoSomethingYummy  from Typecast which is the campaign for CLIC Sargent Charity for children with cancer.  It hit a note with me because just after Little Dimples was born I had a cancer scare for about 6 months.  The terror that hit me was immense, but there is one thing […]

An Amazing Woman In My Life

It’s amazing what you can find in Tesco’s; I found a 73 year old, Irish grandmother with a huge heart.  She cares for Little Dimples while I work, gives Curly Headed Boy the security of a nearby grandma, and supports me in the way that my Mother would have wanted to if she had been […]

My First BBC Radio Interview with My Daddy Cooks

  I was in total geeks heaven; my first radio interview with Nick Coffer on BBC 3 Counties.  There were dials, buttons, screens, computers, flashing things, headphones; it was amazing.  I’d been on blogtalk radio before and interviewed by phone for local independent radio, but here I was being interviewed on BBC Radio, and I […]

Smart Meters making the geek and tree hugger in me really happy

Energy Saving: the problem is how to go about it without appearing like a nag!  Plus my brain isn’t what it was, and although I remember that I was taught how to work out what having a light on would cost, I can’t for the life of me remember how to do it.  With the […]