Silent Sunday…(14 July 2013)

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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…
After completely picking our humble bush at the bottom of the garden bare, right down to the little green berries (yes, he tried those too), when Dadda arrived home from work he decided it was time for Jensen Indiana to forage on pastures new. So out we headed, red tin pail in hand to hunt…
This Doormat Designs post is compensated by Wayfair as part of their Home Experts Panel Our doorway is the place in our home which is used the most and cared for the least. We’ve been in the same home for 18 years now [even Yotie asks when we’re moving and can he have a goldfish…
I am terrified of the dentist. I know that’s childish and ridiculous, but I am. Hypocritically, I cannot say enough about how important it is for Our Little Adventurer to visit regularly and I hands-in-the-air admit that I practically press ganged Dadda into taking Jensen a year ago for his first visit. On his second…
This Sunday, we went conker hunting. It’s bittersweet each year now. This is the third year without my gorgeous fur baby Casanova, the third Autumn when he hasn’t been here to leap in and out of the crunchy golden leaves. I don’t talk about him a great deal, because when I do it brings tears…
I taught algebra today at school before coming home to create our version of Blackpool tower. In its algebraic form (did I make that word up? Probably.) I reasoned the following: Back in the day (or the “olden days” as I used to call it when referring to my own parents’ childhood) when staycations were the norm…