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It’s conference season still – and this week it’s the big one. Britmums. I joined the Britmums meme 2014 and the Britmums meme 2013, too – I’m getting the hang of it! Here we go! Name: Sara-Jayne. No one understands me when I say it, so phonetically here it is: Saah-raah-Jayne. Height: Apparently 5…
With sun-flushed cheeks and grass-scattered hair, knocking scuffed sandal toes with our friends as we swung about on the chipped, yellow pudding bowl climbing frame outside our house, every Summer we waited. As soon as we heard it, we’d scramble from our metal perches and race to our doorstep, heads craned sideways to yell through…
“Nothing.” is not the inspirational answer I hope for each time I ask the mister what he would like for any special occasion…but it’s the one I get, anyway. Buying for him really makes me wish that the phrase, “it’s the thought that counts” was a reality, because if it did, the gifts he eventually…
It’s blog conference season again and this year, my favourite blogger [and loveliest friend] Debbie at An Organised Mess and I are spreading our wings and heading to a new destination for our second conference of the year [our first was Blog On Cymru]: Blogtacular! I’ve had this ticket since forever, it feels like –…
My granny always used to say that you could judge a man by his shoes. On Saturday mornings as a child, I remember her making a list of errands to run – greengrocers, butchers, and occasionally the cobblers to have her shoes re-heeled or fixed. I’m 39 – and I’ve never been to a…
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…