Last week I had a meeting in a hotel (stop smirking at the back!) where we perched in Reception for a couple of hours to have an offline discussion and do a bit of recruiting. I don’t get to see my main client that often as both our jobs are fairly mobile, and she’s not my only client. Plus, well I often have important Tweets to send
Musings
Doubt
I am plagued with self doubt. I always have been. Not believing in myself is sort of what makes me, well, me really. Am I am good enough mother? Wife? Colleague? Friend? Blogger? I want to be good at all those things and it is hard to know if I achieve it. I guess compliments every now and again mean I must get some things right. When Penny, Annie and
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Musings
The Gallery — Guilty Pleasures
Uh Oh. I wasn’t sure I was ready to share my guilty pleasure with you. You will judge. There will be no going back after this one.
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Musings
Hysteria
Not me. Though I must admit there are times when I can get a bit hysterical, I admit. But something I witnessed on Saturday night, that I have never seen since I saw George Michael put a shuttlecock down his shorts and then throw it in to the crowd. And that was so long ago he was straight.
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Musings
Amazon Kindle — Review
I have made no secret of my disapproval of the Amazon Kindle. I have written about how I much prefer books a couple of times. Laughed as people on planes are told to put their “book” down as the Captain is preparing his descent and therefore all electronics must be stowed away. Savoured having to go to the book shop to buy a book, the delay in getting hold of
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Musings
Ranty Friday — FatGirl
Yet again this week the planned Ranty Friday gets binned and a replacement hastily bashed out in a rage. A RAGE. This time over a tweet that I saw last night, from, of all places, Harrods. Yes, that Harrods. They tweeted the following: And linked to a picture of the three products above.
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Musings
The Gallery — Weather
We have certainly had some recently haven’t we? It has been biblical at times. Particularly so on Friday night when the country almost went into lock down and there were various warnings put out to say that nobody should travel unless absolutely necessary.
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Musings
Maths
I don’t do maths. Can’t do maths. I hate numbers and am bordering on phobic. Numbers make me feel stupid. I have blogged before about my lack of a maths GCSE (or technically speaking lack of an O level as GCSEs hadn’t been invented. Yes, I really am that old). I make no secret of it, or the fact I am not terribly academic. It’s a fact. I am not
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Musings
Ranty Friday — Birth
Well clearly not birth itself. Obviously. But this week on Ranty Friday something has got right on my wick. We heard that Nick Knowles and his lovely wife were expecting their first child together in August. Excellent news you might think. But not if you have read about in the press or seen “debates” on Twitter. Mrs Knowles has decided that she does not want her husband in the delivery
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HomeLife
New Bedrooms — AD
New Bedrooms — AD When C mentioned recently that she was moving into a flat with her boyfriend there was a mix of emotion in our house. She was clearly excited about this rite of passage in her life, finally having a place to call her own. Whereas I was sad that my first born was flying the coop (here is the post I wrote about it at the time:
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Musings
Scrimping
Scrimping used to have such negative connotations didn’t it? Almost penny pinching. Miserly maybe. Not these day now. Savvy shoppers and living frugally mean that we are all scrimping. I know I am. Life for us is expensive at the moment. I am not particularly sure why. There just seems to be one thing after another that leaves me staring at my bank account thinking “but there is still so
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Musings
The Gallery — Food
Oh my word. Well if every a category had my name stamped all over it, it was this one. I cannot tell you how many photos there are on my phone of food. I photograph every meal when we go out. I Instagram a lot of them, and I just keep the others. I don’t even know why. It certainly isn’t to try and recreate them. Well that would just