Picture the scene. You are in a trendy hotel. In a funky/buzzy part of London. You have money in your pocket so you can do stuff. You have no kids to sort out child care for. You have no plans. You don’t have to drive so you can drink. The whole of London is at your disposal. It is Saturday night. So what would you do? If you are
Welcome to MummyBarrow. I am a slightly bonkers mum of three, wife to one. Never really sitting still as there is always so much to do! This is my bit of the web to get things out of my head and where I hope to make you laugh or think. I don't really talk about my children too much as they can Google themselves but I do talk about family life. And juggling. Oh and food and drink. I talk about those a lot. So do pull up a chair, grab a biscuit and have a rummage.
Musings
Dear David Beckham OBE
I love you. Really I do. Whenever I am in Alderley Edge I look at the end of the drive where you once lived and wish I had been in the area then. In Marks and Spencers in Handforth I always keep an eye out for you. Lady B tells me that she knows people who have seen you in there and that without exception you have always been lovely.
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Musings
Lets be honest
This is the overwhelming message I brought home from my weekend away. It wasn’t how to get the stats up on my blog or how to make my pictures more amazing. Though that was why I went. Those were the workshops I attended and whilst they were all brilliant they weren’t the main thing I learnt. No, it was about being an honest blogger. Honest to who I am and
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Musings
Standing Ovations
I read a fabulous line in a book recently. A novel called Wonder by RJ Palacio that tells the story of August, a ten year old boy with a facial disfigurement. There is a review of it on this blog: (Wonder) and I implore you to read it, it is just most brilliant book. The line is “everybody deserves at least one standing ovation in their life”. Isn’t that so
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Musings
Parcel Farce
Things go wrong. It is a fact of life. Companies cannot foresee every eventuality but when they go wrong how they communicate the problem is far more important. Any reasonable person will forgive the issue but wont forgive being ignored. And being ignored can make what might have been a small issue, a whole lot worse. Why am I telling you this? I will tell you why I am telling
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Musings
This is it. This is THE weekend
This is the weekend we have all been looking forward to. It is finally here We have our tickets in our hands. Tickets we bought before we even knew who the headline acts would be. Before we knew who would be speaking at all. We just knew we had to get tickets as soon as they were available. We have left our children behind, rolling their eyes and saying “you
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Musings
Harry Moseley’s bracelets and shiny new website
If you have read my blog for a while you will know that last year I tipped Wincey Willis off to a competition that Absolute Radio were doing where she could win £10,000 for a charity of her choice. I picked Wincey because I knew from Twitter that she was heavily involved with raising money with Harry Moseley’s family. We never expected to win, but win we did and I
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Musings
The Gallery — Family
There has been a little break in the Gallery posts as Tara, the host, has been off on a fabulous holiday that she won. Seems appropriate that the first theme since her return then is Family. Not many pics of us as a family exist. Primarily as I have never seen a pic of me that I like, but secondly the three smaller Bs don’t like having their pics taken
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Musings
I have never…..
Whilst driving into London on Saturday we drove past Harrods. “There it is kids” I exclaimed, as they had been talking about it a few miles before. I have never been to Harrods exclaimed Mr B. I was dumbstruck (note that in your diary. It doesn’t happen very often). Mr B had never been to Harrods! I don’t know why it surprised it. I am sure millions haven’t been, even
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Exploring
The Malmaison Oxford
The Malmaison Hotel Oxford I told you the story this week of an afternoon I spent in prison last year, having tea with a murderer. Well this year I went to prison again. This time overnight. It went something like this between J and I: Mum I have been invited to a party in Oxford on Saturday night Quick mental calculation in my head that Oxford is an hour and
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Musings
Celebrity Dad of the Year award
Earlier this year I blogged about the Mum of the Year award and how farcical it was that Natasha Giggs had won. It was and it still is. Then today we hear announced that this year’s Dad of the Year is Gary Barlow. Now. I have nothing against Gary Barlow. He is a perfectly pleasant chap who can write a nice tune. He does an awful lot for a
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Musings
Travel ban for mothers who defy court orders
I heard this story on the news this week and immediately wanted to write a piece about how absurd this is. How shocking and how it once again punishes single mothers. But then I saw a friend commenting on it on over on Facebook and asked her if she would do a guest post as she has first hand experience of very important issue. Sarah puts into words exactly what