It’s been a funny old year, hasn’t it? On the news front it feels like quite a depressing year looking back – the horrors of what has been happening in Syria, the shock of the Brexit vote and Trump being elected US President, and the deaths of so many celebrities. I have to confess I’m… Read More
I love the various bloggers’ tags that pop up on blogs from time to time and reading all the different answers to the various questions posed. They’re a fun way of finding out a little more about the bloggers behind the blog. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been tagged in a couple of… Read More
Dear little girls I watch you both sleeping, gaze at your peaceful content faces. You dream away, oblivious to the increasing craziness of the world around you. I am afraid for you. I am afraid of this increasingly dark world in which you are growing up. Afraid of the hatred that is out there, in… Read More
I was recently nominated by Squirmy Popple (thank you!) in the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. It’s been a little while since I’ve joined in with one of these awards and I always love to read the different questions and responses from them and learning more about the bloggers behind the blog. Here are… Read More
A sunny afternoon, watching my girls having fun together. Listening to the squeals of delight, the giggles as they chase each other round and round. Watching the way they wander off hand in hand together. And I stop and think – this is my perfect moment. This is what matters most; this is what really… Read More
This is a man who isn’t perfect, not by any stretch of the imagination, but this is a man who always tries. Sometimes he passes through the house like a whirlwind, leaving a mini trail of destruction in his wake. Sometimes he says the wrong thing, although he never intends to hurt. He makes mistakes,… Read More
Placentaphagy – the act of eating one’s own placenta (or their baby’s placenta depending on who you assign ownership to) has been in the news lately after Colleen Rooney tweeted a picture of the capsules made from her son Kit’s placenta. Eating a placenta is something that many people would consider to be quite revolting,… Read More