I love Tara Cain’s blog and her Gallery blog hop. I am just never organised enough to participate. Until I heard this week’s and thought “I have to enter this, I have a belter”. I had been searching through old photos of me to do a post on childhood holidays, when I stumbled across this: I would love to be able to say that I am the stylish lady on
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
Twitter hypocrisy
So if you are on Twitter you have been bombarded recently by the “ladies” who’s bios are sparse but leave you in no uncertain terms what they are about. They are all bots that want you to follow them back so they can spam your private message box with links to porn sites (which they cannot do unless you follow them back) but it is infuriating to have to keep
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Wonder by R J Palacio
Wonder by RJ Palacio, a review Another book that Marianne at Transworld sent to me this week, and another book that I finished in almost one sitting. “Wonder” tells the story of August Pullman, a 10 year old boy born with a facial deformity that we are told is so bad it makes people gasp when they see him. So bad that August felt he had to hide behind
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RIP Whitney
We have woken up this morning to the sad news that Whitney Houston has died. “Houston has a problem” to paraphrase a great quote, and has had for years. Her drug abuse has been well documented and early reports today indicate that her death is connected to an overdose. Though not yet confirmed. Whilst I am sad for her family, it is her daughter I feel for most. Yes Whitney
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Dear Volkswagen
Dear Volkswagen I am the proud owner of one of your Touaregs. I confess that I didn’t buy it new, I bought it two years ago when I had to trade in my beloved PT Cruiser because I had driven it into the ground. I do a lot of driving. A quiet day sees me doing 60 miles of driving just on school runs. A busy day, such as today
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Thinking Slimmer — Week two
Well I think I can sum up this week as “bumpy”. But I am cool with that, it’s fine. As over all I am still losing weight. I have lost another 2lbs! I actually lost 4lbs but put two back on again. And as I say, that is fine. This takes the tally over two weeks to 7lbs. That’s half a stone. Half a stone!!!!!! Un flipping believable. I have
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I am not ashamed to beg
I don’t do “beating about the bush” so I am just going to come out with it. Its been a year since I started blogging and in that time I have blogged about all sorts of things, from things that make me rant (you might want to skip those) to reviews about things I love. I have also blogged about being a landlord, things that make me laugh, recipes, just
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Supporting
Niki’s Balms — a review
Niki’s Balms There is a great thing on Twitter where you suggest people that you follow to your other followers who may not have heard of them. It’s called Follow Friday or #ffs (when I was wet behind the ears I thought that stood for For F*** Sake and was a list of the people that had annoyed you that week) I am digressing again. It was through a
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The Light Between Oceans — A review
I had seen a bit of a buzz about this book on Twitter. It had its own hashtag and everytime I saw#lightbetweenoceans appear I was more and more intrigued. I was thrilled, therefore, to receive a copy in the post this week. With a handwritten note from Marianne, at the publishers, that said “if this book does not break your heart you are not the person I thought you were”.
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Laura Zilli…. A word?
Hi Laura I have to admit that before this week I hadn’t heard of you. Forgive me. Hardly surprising though as you are only 26 and have a “burgeoning modelling career”. So how would our paths have crossed? You appeared on my radar following this article. Move over Nigella! Model Laura Zilli says she’s not only a better cook – her new show will teach you to look glam in
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To list or not to list?
There was a piece on BBC Breakfast today that really struck a chord with me. They were talking about “to do lists” and if people that write them are more successful. Well I am a prolific “To do list” writer, in fact it is the only way that I can cope with all I have to do. People do say to me “I don’t know how you do it”. Well
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Is silence golden?
In these times of instant updates and reaction on social media sites, is silence from a corporate PR department golden? There is an interesting article in this week’s Radio Times by Justin Webb. He suggests that being open is easier said than done and …is it possble that the smart response to the public is sometimes, still, silence? I think not. He gives an example of a Quantas social media