I love books that come in a trilogy package. It first started in my teens with Len Deighton’s Hook, Line and Sinker and my latest trilogy has got me well…hook, line and sinker. Fifty Shades of Grey and it’s sequels – Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. A romance with lots of sex. And [...]
I have had the motherlode of all fuck-ups lately and I am not taking it well. How hard can it be to order something and give them the correct address and then have them deliver to the correct address. Apparently it is all too hard. I had the delivery guy park in my driveway yesterday [...]
I gave up full time paid work when I had my son who is now about to turn 15. Where did the years go and why don’t I remember most of them? Since then, I have had two more children and now they too are old enough that they don’t need constant supervision (but I [...]
I must have done something in another life that was so bad, so horrific that the Universe is now teaching me a lesson. And boy! am I learning. This is what I have learnt… 1. I had children through choice. My first son was very much wanted after a few miscarriages and my twins were [...]
Whilst at the doctors yesterday having some suspicious moles removed, I was given some sage advice from a young doctor who was observing. Being one of a fraternal twin, I think she knows what she is talking about when it comes to all things boy/girl twinness (I know, not a word…but it should be). She [...]
So often menu plans and diets neglect to cater for the real person who also has to cook for her family and changing plans. In addition to catering for a family, semi remote living means that there is the lack of fresh vegetables and variety of ingredients that some recipes use. At present, we are [...]
I’ve always been on the fringes, not quite in the “in” group and not quite in the “out” group. In fact, I am in the middle of most things – in between height, in between weight, in between blonde and brown hair colour, in between skin tone (not fair but not dark), and dare I [...]
I’ve done it. I’ve put myself out there stating publicly that I was commiting to losing this bloody god awful noose of weight which has dragged me down and consumed my every waking moment (almost!) for the past 10 years. I know I have commitment issues and willpower is not one of my superpowers. I [...]
Yep, I am gonna write out goals for 2012. I’ve often thought about it but never actually done it. Where to start…in no particular order (this is not the definitive list either,BTW) 1. Become social media savvy – learn how to tweet and why I am actually tweeting; work out why my facebook pages are [...]
Every year I try to plan that we go somewhere to break the monotony of Xmas school holidays. Not sure if it’s for the kids or me. I can only yell at them so much to turn the television down and help me with something. Every time we go on holiday my husband takes that [...]