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  • The secret SAHM club….and other campfire tales

    So, here we are at the start of the school summer holidays. These are my first ‘proper’ holidays since I left work. It’s my first year when I’ve been truly free to do what I want (with the boys of course) and, while I am as skint as a flint, I have a good roll call…

  • Pick and mix

    Pick and mix

        You know, I have always been in Praise of Slow. Normally it’s in the context of crafty ditherings but it can also be re life choices and similar trivia. I was made redundant almost 5 months ago. I had Little One almost three years ago. I was dx 5 years ago. Yep, it’s…

  • Colour

    Way back at the beginning of the year I said I would Choose Life this year. Wel, here we are almost at the midpoint and how am I doing? A mixed bag, I’d say. I’ve become better at stopping to smell the metaphorical flowers of Life, I’ve grown to realise how lucky I am with…

  • Choose-day

    Life is about choices, no? Tuesday’s are now Choose-days for me. I’ll choose to do one life-enhancing thing each week. Well, I’ll try. I might even save a cat in the process.

  • So predictable…

    So I was torn about this post. Do I reflect on times past, review 2011, or do I look forward and consider my resolution(s). Well, dear reader, as a nod to optimism I choose to go forwards, move on. I could have made a massive list of resolutions, I normally do. But then, as they…