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  • Today’s #10AmWithTea is brought to you from a menopausal anxiety attack at 2am. Full blown heart palpitations and falling down a “what if” rabbit hole for five hours. I’m now so tired I can’t think straight. Menopause sucks and HRT is not quite the wonder drug I was hoping it would be. This was not helped at 6.30am by a dead boiler. I actually shouted at it and scared it into firing up again so we could all have a hot shower this morning but god knows how long it’ll last. I’m also sad about the death of Mike Thalassitis over the weekend. Clearly I never knew him and I’m not even sure I watched his series of Love Island but I’m heartbroken for his family and friends. As some of you know our family know the devastation of losing a family member, also male, to suicide and that pain never goes away. There’s always somebody missing. There’s always a feeling of wishing things had been different. Suicide is THE single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK and in 2015 75% of all suicides were male. This is a really rambling sleep deprived post and I don’t know what I’m really trying to say here. Maybe it’s just this: Please if you think you have no other option, that the world won’t miss you, that we would be better off without you, that whatever it is can’t be resolved, please I beg of you just pick up the phone and dial 116 123. Especially if you’re a bloke. . . . #MondayThoughts
  • “She dreams of one day putting a USB cable in the right way first time”. On Friday I attended a thing on how to build your brand. When we think of brands we often think of the big guys, the Nike, Coke, Unilever boys and never really see ourselves as brands too. One of the sessions was on how to write a killer “About Me” page. I thought mine was okay until @antoniataylorpr started speaking and by the time her session was over i could t wait to get home to delete mine and start again. Our “About Me” pages aren’t about us at all, they’re about other people. Giving them an insight into us so that they want to stick around and know more. The above line now ends my page and might be the more truthful thing I’ve ever written. . . . #AboutMe #sundayvibes #WhoIAm #bloggersofinstagram #bloggerlife
  • Yin and yang, baby, yin and yang. What Wednesday lacked, Friday more than made up for. I had such a great day yesterday and my head is now buzzing with ideas and things I need to change on my blog, do more of on Instagram, think about when pitching to brands and do less of on social in general. I also got to hang out with some amazing people who I’d never have met were it not for yesterday. And I got to drink tea. Which reminded me that I started #10AmWithTea months ago and then abandoned it as life got in the way. Again. So I’ve given myself a stern talking to overnight and it’s back. If you’d like to join I’d love to see your pics. What are you doing / were you doing at 10am? If involved a cuppa, that’s brilliant. You can post anytime of the day, not just at 10am (Though I’m going to aim for then). I’ll share those joining in over on stories. Thank you to those that kept it alive for me whilst I wasn’t. • • • #tea #cuppa #widn #SnapshotOfMyDay
  • I was fannying around on my blog last week doing all that admin stuff that always gets out off. Like downloading my sitemao (indisnt even know I had a sitemap before then) so I could create a spreadsheet of every post I’ve ever written. Who even am I? But back in the day I didn’t realise you need pictures to be larger than 200 x 400; that changing my theme to one that requires me to allocate a featured image would mean hundreds wouldn’t have an image. Including stacks of “Silent Sunday” posts. Which is how I found a post I don’t remember writing 7 years ago about the greatest sandwich combination. A post championing cheese and pickle that has had a bazillion views yet had terrible photos. Clearly wrote it and forgot about it. Im not sure I’ll forget this toasted cheese sandwich quite so easily. Amazing goats cheese with walnuts and rosemary butter. Thank you @gottobegourmet for picking where we met for lunch for a long overdue catch up. Do any of you know about @thecheesebarldn ? They don’t even do tea or coffee but their selection of cheesy food is superb. Right by the Amy Winehouse statue in Camden Market, it’s definitely worth a trip. The cheesy chips? Nope got no idea where they came from nor where they went. 🙋‍♀️🤫 #camden #camdenmarket #cheese #AllTheCheese #toastedcheesesandwich
  • Well yesterday didn’t go entirely to plan. In fact it didn’t go to plan at all. First I had to cancel a lunch and a cuppa meet up because I was feeling horrendous. Then I was late leaving the flat to meet Mr B because i got addicted to Botched and wanted to see the results of the surgery. Have you watched it? I’ve never seen it before but now I’m hooked. So having dragged myself out and dashed to the BBC for a filming of QI we queued for an hour and a half to be told “thanks but we’re full” as we got to the front. All the while our phones are pinging with news alerts about the disaster that is Brexit and whips being ignored. What the hell IS going on?! And then FB, Instagram and WhatsApp crashed for 8 hours. It truly felt like the end of days. Still I did find some chopsticks I could actually use in a little Japanese restaurant Mr B took me to in an effort to salvage our evening. Silver linings and all that?
  • People are good. I think it’s good to remember that sometimes, to actually acknowledge it. Especially right now. Brexit, Trump, 50mph winds, it really feels like we are battered from every angle. The news is all doom and gloom and actually just bloody depressing. So I wanted to say out loud that we need to remember people are good. And kind. This weekend we were shown kindness by the lovely @pubmum and her husband at their B&B as they offered us painkillers for Jonnie after his walk and took the time to chat to us over breakfast despite having a million other things to do. A lady I’d never met before (who isn’t on Instagram) but who I’ve chatted to on Twitter for 8 years baked biscuits and drove half an hour to deliver them and spend the afternoon supporting our charity walk. All the questions I’ve been posting in various blogging forums this week have been answered and nobody has said “you idiot, you’ve been doing this since 2011, how can you not know this stuff?!!” So yeah, people are good.
  • I learned a lot this weekend. Firstly there is no phone signal for about 400 miles in any given direction from your current location in the Peaks. Secondly, have a back up plan. Don’t say “we’ll head to the next meeting point” and then sit there for two hours nursing cheese and onion toasties unaware there’s been a detour and your team can’t tell you due to point one. It’s not very clever when the ones with the car are the ones who need rescuing, not the walkers doing 26 miles in hail in shorts. Third thing. Pubs shut in the afternoon. I KNOW! Who knew?! Meaning you can’t have a wee. Or nick their WiFi to try and locate said friends (see points one and two). And finally, and this is the mind blowing one my friends.... in the olden days (will now ever be referred to as the olden days?) sheep got sent to prison. Actual prison. No, you shut up. Stray sheep got rounded up and locked in a village’s pinfold until the farmer paid a fine to have them back. I’d like to do similar to middle lane hoggers but that’s a different story. #Grindon #PeakDistrict #peakdistrictphotography #pinfold
  • Seventeen years ago today I met Mr B. It was Mother’s Day and my kids were at their dad’s so i had planned to spend the day decorating the house I’d moved in two months before, post divorce. But mid morning I accepted an invitation for lunchtime drinks in a pub and thought “yep, sod the painting”. Little did I know back then that the chap in the mustard coloured jumper I got chatting to would hold my hand as he walked me across the car park back to my car later on. We’ve done a lot in seventeen years, it hasn’t always been easy, nothing ever is. But his support of me and the kids has been unwavering. Always and without question. I really couldn’t have done it without you Mr B. Thank you for being you and for for letting me be me.
  • Just leaving this here. Happy Saturday

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Hello, and welcome to Mummy Barrow. Primarily a lifestyle blog written by me, T (short for Tanya but nobody uses that). There is the occasional post by my husband Bruce and his stuff is in the Mister Barrow category. My previous working life was as either a PA or in the property industry but now I am a full time blogger. I am also a mum of three and trying to make the world a better place one blog post at a time. Oh and I could talk for hours about the menopause and its myriad symptoms. I am never far from a cuppa or a large gin.
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