A lifestyle blog
It seems kind of appropriate that I chose the picture above for this week’s the theme of “from the archives” for this week’s post on The Gallery. A photo I found recently whilst rummaging through a drawer. A picture of Jonnie taken when he was about 18 months old. It is poignant for a couple of reasons. One because this week he set off with a bunch of other teenagers
I have three teenagers and generally speaking I don’t worry about them. They are grown ups in my head. But today I have been pondering “When do we stop thinking of our children as our babies” C has just started her new job, one that is part of her long term career objective and one that will challenge her on a daily basis working in a busy A&E Department. Doesn’t
I am really sorry the book for Mummy Barrow’s Book Club is so late this month and didn’t happen at all last month. But it has been a bit crazy around here. I hope my choice of book will make up for it though. This book is, quite simply, Perfect. It comes from Rachel Joyce, author of quite possibly my most favourit-ist book of all times ever, The Unlikely Pilgrimage
I don’t mean putting name stickers on them, that is a good idea when you need to know a child’s name at a glance. What I am talking about is when journalists write stories about their children, I am assuming for cash, with headlines that scream “My demon daughter”. Labelling children with a tag, a name that is less than complimentary. Now that particular child is six. Is she really
Sometimes the theme for the Gallery needs just photos and not many words. This week’s theme of sun is one such week. These are photos from our garden last night. The last glimpses of sunlight leaving for the evening. And of the sun as it comes up in our garden in the morning. It is one of my favourite views from anywhere in the world. We have lived in
You may wonder a) who Katie Hopkins is and why she is appearing on Ranty Friday; and b) why the picture of a lemon and not a picture of her. Well pull up a chair and let me tell you. Katie Hopkins first appeared on the Apprentice, in 2007. Nothing wrong with that. Except she seemed to have a bit of a bee in her bonnet from the off. She
People often ask me “why do you love blogging?”. Or sometimes they don’t ask it but just roll their eyes and give that look of “whatever” when I mention that I have a blog and I feel I need to tell them why I love blogging. And increasingly I hear “I really want to start a blog, you get so much free shit amazing stuff”. Which I get very defensive
So I thought I would share with you a pic I took recently of something that makes me smile. Okay so it is a bit egotistical but when you have spent your life looking for personalised things and NEVER found any, you get a bit excited when a company says “we can put whatever you like on our product”. Therefore, in light of there being no gallery from Tara this
Got that? I am not a potato. Nor am I a butternut squash
Ah green. Green on The Gallery this week. Makes you think of lush green fields, doesn’t it at this time of year. Hedgerows springing forth. The sound of cricket being played on the village green. The view above was my view of a green this morning. Speech day at J’s school. The end of term. The beginning of the long luxurious holidays. They always finish before Henley Regatta so this
I know a bit about Twitter. I can now even say that I have an award for Social Media. I don’t do it on a professional basis, but I do follow a number of businesses and know that when using it professionally you need to be professional. And if you are company who doesn’t really understand social media, you employ an outside company to do it for you. You sit
Yes that name badge has been altered to say “Sexual being”. That is what happens when you let Annie near your name badge with a biro. It was Sunday morning at about 11.30 that it hit me. That I realised I had me a bad case of the post Britmums Blues. We had gone to TK Maxx to spend the gift card they had put in the goodie bag we
