Summer wasn’t meant to be this way. Summer was meant to be about feeling the sun on your face, lifting your chin to let it filter down your body, enveloping you in a cocoon of gold.
She stares blankly at the walls. Undone. "What did I forget?"
“Jesus Christ woman, what is this?! I’ve just got off an eight hour flight, I don’t need this crap!” Gripping the kitchen chair, she pulled the wooden seat tight against her thighs, ready to assume the crash position.
There I was, foetally curled, waiting for something to happen. My beautiful boy didn’t stumble back to his bed, he lay down, spooning me and pulling as many towels as he could over the two of us. And there we lay…
I appear to be on what the professionals call a blogging hiatus and I just call a messed up work/life balance. Either way the wondrous Tara has called me out on it and insisted I complete 2 memes of which
In the very small fragment of time that I’ve spent blogging I’ve read some fabulous blogs, learned a massive amount and stored away little nuggets of ideas for how I’d like my blog to be. I always quite liked the
Ok, I threw you all in a bucket and rummaged around with my eyes closed to make this draw truly random…. So, the winner of the Ikea Svinga Chair is…. *audience hushes and prepares face for benevolent but ultimately insincere
Here’s a very quick competition to get me back into the swing (see what I did there?) of things over here. I love this chair, always have, there’s something about the design that is instantly soothing and that’s even before
So, ‘Something For The Weekend’ – what’s that all about then? Seeing it for the first time at the weekend – finger, pulse? *ahem* – I really didn’t know what to make of it. We have Tim Lovejoy being Tim
In 1999, as Prince did his thing and everyone else was quaffing champagne and wondering if we were about to encounter a digital apocalypse, I was laid up suffering my own version of the Millenium Bug, replete with Aloe laden
Today is the (now) 6yo’s birthday. I will at some later date write about the relative nightmare that is a birthday over the Christmas period, but for today I am going to stick with cake, and then wine, and then
*holds gold envelope in hand, approaches podium* Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m happy to announce the winners of this fabulous giveaway are…. *pauses for slightly over-dramatic effect* This book goes to the lovely Superamazingmum *wild applause* Sugababes Perfume is going to
A little while ago now a group of us got to chatting about ‘stuff’. About how blogging could get really competitive at times and how it was easy to lose your sense of why. A few of us were already