Having reviewed bacon and sausages Cheeky was quite excited this morning when he heard that he was to review another pig product. He excitedly got his Bag for Life and waited patiently to go shopping: There are a whole range of Percy Pig sweets to choose from, and even drinks now. As well as the ice creams, which E and I got to review earlier this year. Cheeky decided he
Musings
“Hiding the shame of husband being out of work”
I read an article in Daily Fail this week that made me want to scream. My Shame at husband being out of work Jane* tells the story of how “her gilded life is falling apart” and how upsetting it was that her daughter was suggesting that daddy work as a bus driver. “He’s got a History degree from Cambridge, a Masters degree in business and spent years of senior experience
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Musings
Why this weekend is bittersweet
If you have followed my blog from the beginning you are either mad or family but you will have read this post from earlier in the year: The Day we had an Absolute Blast A post about the day Absolute Radio broadcast the breakfast show and a gig by KT Tunstall from our lounge. But also why September 24th is such a poignant date. September 24th 2009 was the day
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Musings
Should the Times Educational Supplement allow teachers to cyber bully pupils?
Probably not a question you have ever asked yourself. I certainly hadn’t. Until today when I saw this link tweeted by @lagosmum. Please take five minutes to read it: http://aspergersinfo.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/how-well-do-you-really-know-your-childs-teacher/ The blog belongs to @clairelouise82, a mum of three, one with Aspergers. Though actually this is not an issue relating to Aspergers. It is relevant to all of us as parents. I read that post and was utterly appalled. I
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Musings
Britmums Prompt: “What I can’t live without”
As I am new to blogging I am new to all the blogging networks that are out there. One that I have joined recently is Britmums: http://www.britmums.com/. A great website full of fabulous resources for us bloggers. Last week they started a “prompt” link to give us bloggers an idea of something to write about and then we could link up and see what other members are saying about the
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Musings
David Walliams — my hero
I don’t find everything that David Walliams has ever starred in hilarious. It’s not always my kind of humour, but then when it comes to comedy I am a bit odd. There I have said it. However the things you have done for charity leave me speechless. And as somebody on 29,000 tweets being speechless is not something that comes naturally. Right now you are swimming 140 miles in possibly
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Musings
The High Street is doomed
High streets are doomed You may have seen the headline the high street is doomed, according to Mary Portas High Street Doom and Gloom I am going to ignore the angle that Mary’s company YellowDoor promotes Westfield as I don’t see the relevance of this. The report shows that the number of vacant shops on the high street has trebled from 2007, now standing at nearly 29,000. And there are
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Musings
An update to an earlier post
As some of you are aware, earlier this year my 82 year old granny got scammed over a property deal. To the tune of £395. My original blogpost is here: Dear Scammer As one of my replies to comments at the bottom said, on the day I posted that, unbeknown to me, Fryer was actually in court. Not for this crime but for a similar fraud where he conned
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Musings
So what did you do today?
It is probably around now that you are getting home from picking up children from school and asking the question “what did you do at school today?” Or waiting for your other half to come home from work and you will ask the same of them. I am interested though in what you did today. Does anybody ever really ask you that? No, I thought not. So please tell me.
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Exploring
The Malmaison Reading — A review
Sadly this is not a glowing review of the Malmaison in Reading, I really wish it was. At the end of a very stressful week last week came a little tunnel of light in the shape of a very good friend’s hen do. A private room at Malmaison had been booked for eight of us to have dinner before going on somewhere else for some more drinking and dancing. The
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Musings
The perfect Cheeky bacon butty.
Having reviewed sausages last week Cheeky has been begging since to review another meat product for my blog. Since International Bacon Day is around now it seemed appropriate to do a bacon sandwich for him. There is a formula that according to Leeds University researchers that reflects the perfect bacon sandwich: It is N = C + {fb (cm) . fb (tc)} + fb (Ts) + fc . ta
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Musings
A “Cheeky” review — Sainsburys Sausages
One of my favourite blogs is owned by @needaphone aka Claire. A fabulous blog that covers all sorts of things. My favourite posts are generally the reviews by Rollie the cat. Yes, Rollie is a cat and he has reviewed all sorts of things from Soda Streams to yogurts. Rollie will shortly begin hotel reviews. I love him and plan one day to cat-nap him. Seeing how great Rollie is