A lifestyle blog
Random, as it suggests!
I get lots of approaches every day asking me post pre-written content on my blog, or asking me to write something. Most of them I turn down. I also see opportunities and think “that won’t be a good fit so I won’t bother applying”. Working with Dove on their self esteem project was an opportunity I leapt at when I saw that Mumsnet were looking for bloggers with
Is basically a fiasco. Well actually that is not quite true. Not all of it is. I have some very hard working friends who are keen and conscientious exam markers so this post is not directed at them. I know they are under huge amounts of pressure, not being paid a huge amount and are all doing their best and also caught up in a system that is,
. I see you have a book out on Thursday and as such you are doing the rounds drumming up publicity for it. So I guess you really have no choice but to talk about the book, your life, and more importantly your marriage. And it is that more than anything that has made me feel the need to write to you today. The headlines screaming out are that you
. *blows off the blog cobwebs* I think I have lost my mojo somewhere between France and Fleet. I am not sure where I last saw it. It actually might have been before France to be honest, maybe even before we went to Barbados in July. I have no idea where I have put it. I have looked in all the usual places. Tried all the usual methods of recall
. Suffice to say this week is not exactly the week I had planned this time last week. In fact this time last week I was pretty much in a co-codamol coma flat on my back on a hotel bed nursing what I suspected was a broken ankle. As the pain subsided slightly, or maybe it was due to the drugs kicking in, or actually it might have
. . I lay in the dark on the night of September 24th / morning of September 25th six years ago thinking “what if he has just got in the car and driven off”. “what if he has vanished and we never hear from him again”. You hear of people doing that. Of families in anguish as a loved one vanishes and is then missing for years. This was
. I am going to keep this brief. No flim flam. No messing about. A blog post that if it were a noise it would be a “BOSH” kinda thing. My lovely friend Kate at Gower Cottage Brownies (who I have written about a million times before) has got her paws on some tickets for events next week at the Henley Literary Festival and has asked me if I
. There is saying about pants that goes something like: “well if I get run over and end up in A&E I want to make sure I have clean pants on” as a reason why pants should always be clean and semi decent. And shameful pants should be ditched, or only worn when you are not leaving the house. It’s a saying I have muttered a few times in the
. Bloody hell, don’t faint but it’s a blog post from me. They have been a bit thin on the ground in recent weeks I know. A combination of things really. Mostly absolute and total exhaustion. A total lack of energy to do anything, including blog, which really isn’t like me. It’s been building for a while and suddenly it hit me when we were away in
. Weddings are funny things. Joyous occasions, obviously, but they can be stressful as a guest. Hell they are stressful for those whose big day it is, but I think we sometimes forget that they can be for those coming along for the party and cake too. I can think of no other occasion where you might not know many of the other guests attending. Well
. Yet again events in the diary have jumped off the page and basically shouted “YOU ARE GETTING OLD”. This week more than ever. Even when I got a year older last month on my birthday I didn’t feel older in an instant than I do today. This week Jonnie has a birthday and leaves his teens behind to turn twenty. Even he doesn’t like the idea
. I have been asked to do this before, review supplements that claim to make us feel better, but I have always been put off them. Until now. When Pharma Nord approached me with two supplements they sounded exactly like the sort of thing I needed. The first is Bio-Chromium and helps to control blood sugar levels throughout the day. Something I often really struggle with and then