Words for Wednesday…


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Each year since Jensen was born, I’ve bought one of those huge, three feet tall shiny helium filled numeral balloons. Only last year did I think about using them for something more than just their parties, and so I decided to photograph them with their very-loved balloons so that when they’re 18, they can look…
This post won’t be up very long. It’s very indulgent and self pitying, and I never normally write like this. If I do press publish I’ll go back and forwards in my mind wondering whether to press the delete key – and in the end, that emotion will probably win out. You see, I would…
In a few weeks, Jensen will reach the finale of his first year of school. Even though I’m a teacher myself, having my own children reach school age was quite a hullabaloo. You’d think I’d be more prepared -but I wasn’t. Like birthday cards and grocery shopping, I left school uniform shopping until the final couple of…
It’s National Anti-Bullying Week. When Jensen was a baby I was so sure [and so smug] that he wouldn’t be using computers or electronic devices – I was going to keep him away from the evils of the internet and he would only climb trees and hunt for bugs outdoors. As the mister is a…
This is a collaboration with Wax Lyrical for you to win some gorgeous candles and diffusers. I remember visiting Wax Lyrical when I was a teenager with my Mom at Merryhill Shopping Centre in the West Midlands. I’d never seen anything like it and I spent all of my part-time wages between there and the Body…
Remember how fast your heart would beat, running so fast you nearly tumbled as your upper body overtook your lower? Remember the wind swooshing past your ears and refreshing your clammy, Summer drenched face as the breeze whipped through your tangled, grass-peppered hair? Remember who you were running to, with those pretty, crumpled weeds? Your…