On Saturday Olivia and I took an impromptu trip to Liverpool 1. I had promised to take her to buy some new shoes but try as I might I could not convince her that internet […]

Olivia has such a great imagination on her it is fun to listen to her playing at times. Even though she is 8 she still revels in make believe and loves making up games and […]

On Saturday, I decided that I really needed some help with trying to change my diet and get back to exercising. You have seen my posts in the past about my love hate relationship with […]

Recently I was asked to review, with Olivia, the first two books of Soman Chainani’s The School for Good and Evil series. Having never heard of them before I was intrigued to have a look […]

If you are squeamish you may not want to read on! My Little Eye is causing a whole load of problems of late. Back in February, I went for a routine appointment to pick up […]

This weeks word of the week for me is Finally. Finally I have come to the end of my 3 week training course (hence no word of the week for a while). Finally I get […]

Just a quickie post today to let you all know how I am getting on at my training. My first week is over already and today is my first day in store. After a whole […]

I was one of the lucky blogs to be chosen to be involved with the MorrisonsMum campaign with Brit Mums. I received £80 of vouchers to use instore and write about my experience and I […]

So, this week is my first week away for my training course for work. How am I finding it? Hmmm well the thing is I am actually kind of enjoying it. It is hard work […]

We have this thing in our family, something that is as much a part of our family as we are. It is simply called ‘The Knife’ This knife has been around for a very long […]

Apprehensive. This week I am nervous, nervous, scared, yet a bit excited all at the same time. This month is my turn to go for management training for work. I have been on the management […]

This is a bit of a sad post. I was going to do some research but it just upset me so I thought I would just write. Today when I was dropping off my mums […]

Hmmm, Well…. Oh I just don’t know! Kind of a bit all over the place this week. There has been a general lack of sleep and a whole lot of busyness (yes I know it’s […]

I wish I could be different I wish I could be more confident I wish I could talk to people more I wish I didn’t have to practise how to do it I wish I […]