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I am not really sure why I am writing this post but it feels like the first post of the year should be a proper one. A formal one to mark the start of a new bunch of 365 days. Like using your neatest handwriting and only underlining with a ruler on the first page of a notepad, before it all goes down hill five pages in. Or
Tips for Balancing Work and Motherhood Balancing work and motherhood can be quite a complicated task for a lot of women, especially when the position is a full-time one. Quite naturally with the birth of a child priorities change and very often the topic of finding more time for one’s family suddenly becomes one of the most important issues. With the amount of stress that not being able to spend
Are you selling a family home? If so, not only will you have to contend with all the stress that goes with selling and buying, you’ll also have to give some thought to the practical and emotional aspects of moving with children. Here are five tips you can use to make the process of moving house a little bit easier if you have kids in tow. Warn children
Christmas Around the World Christmas traditions around the world fascinate me. In fact any kinds of traditions do and this year I have made a concerted effort to start reinforcing some of our own. You see things have changed over the past few years with us either being at Mr B’s parents, my parents, away in a rented cottage in Cornwall etc, but last year the teens said they
How many status updates have I seen on Facebook this week where people have said “oh god I have just spent hours writing cards and I am not even half way through” or “I have cramp” or “I am so bored with writing cards now”. I will tell you how many. A lot. Writing Christmas cards really doesn’t have to be a massive chore, all you need
Christmas means one thing. Turkey. Presents. A week off work. A monster credit card bill in January. Snow. Family. Either you going to stay with other family, maybe not even your own, or them coming to stay with you. We always host at Christmas and whilst I can’t say I am an expert in this, I do think we have pretty much got it nailed for avoiding family
No sooner has the August bank holiday weekend gone then shops start creeping in their Christmas ranges. Then from mid November onwards you cannot move for Christmas products everywhere you look. Every magazine has Christmas supplements or pull outs. There are tins of sweets stacked ten high, four columns wide. Yards of Jaffa cakes, though quite how they symbolise Christmas I have no idea. What I am noticing more
Ten years we have lived in this house. And for ten years I have wanted a new bathroom. We said we would do it as soon as we moved in. It was the one thing we new we wanted to change, despite it being brand new. To the untrained eye our bathroom ticks all the boxes: tiled floor / tiled walls / all white / big window /
Is a question that always makes me reply with a disclaimer first “well… I was born in London but I have lived all over the place”. I think my current home is my 18th, and between London and here there have been stints in Surrey, various other parts of London, the midlands and the middle east. I have often felt that I am not “from” anywhere. I am not
The story of a 14 year old cancer victim being cryogenically frozen has troubled me this week. Not for the story itself, though that does trouble me on many levels. The false hope this girl has believed may one day bring her back. What happens if by some medical miracle she is brought back to life? She will remember nothing and know no-one in the US. She will still be 14
A NEW NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS They say that everybody has a book in them. That we all have a story to tell. For some people that book is still in their head. Or maybe hand written in pencil, as Dawn French does. Or maybe even typed out on sheets of paper that are then neatly stacked in a drawer. Never to really see the light of day because the author
Normally the gossip surrounding Strictly is about the so called “Curse of Strictly”. The idea that every year a happily married couple will split because one or other of them has fallen for their strictly partner. The tabloids are littered with proof this curse is an actual thing. This year however most of the gossip seems to relate to fighting behind the scenes between the producers and the