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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…
Before I was struck with a case of the nasties, we managed to get some cousin time in at the Nature Centre in Birmingham. Sadly it really wasn’t all it used to be and so I’m putting every mother’s advice about when to speak into practice – but we did have fun seeing the lynx…
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I used to believe that for flowers to take my breath away, they had to be pink, long stemmed and heavily scented. When I opened the chic, understated box from Wildflowers Company this month, I completely fell in love. The simple combination of white blooms with green foliage made me so giddy I actually squealed…
It’s not often that I take “warts and all” photos of the boys when I know they’re heading for a blog post. Generally there’s a clearing of the planned photo site, and some care is taken over what they’re wearing. This isn’t one of those posts. This is a children-running-about-in-pants, bath towels on the washing…