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Life is so much sweeter when your little people all get along – when a new baby arrives, it’s easy for little ones for feel pushed out or ignored. Now, I’m not smug – there are days when our two oldest boys are in a never ending cyclone of teasing an shrieking at each other,…
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It’s just one month away, and we’re shortlisted for the Brilliance in Blogging awards at Britmums Live 2016. It’s THE event of the year and we’ve been to quite a few and so this year we’re happy that we know the ropes, so to speak. As well as being the Party Inspiration Round-up editor on…
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I made it. Ten weeks in, and ten per cent of my body mass has gone. Forever [I hope]. Last night at Slimming World I crept onto the scales praying to see me drop below the next stone marker and there, three pounds lighter, my award popped onto the screen. Club Ten. I can’t actually…
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I generally dislike my own birthday. Besides the fear of the Happy Birthday song [it makes me cry and I don’t know where to look when people sing it to me] I awaited my 40th year with dread. Older, wrinklier, and feeling like my life was pretty much done opportunity wise. However, so far,…
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Surprises are very few and far between when you’re a grown up. So when I read the message from Twinderelmo at 8am yesterday, reading “Huge congrats”, I assumed she was just being as lovely as usual and congratulating me on my Slimming World progress. I wrote back that I was so shocked as I expected…
Succulents are my new favourite plant in the world. I grew up surrounded by them – and hated them – and then developed a huge love of them after taking part in an amazing floral workshop. Obviously then, succulents would become a completely rare and black market item in Hampshire and could I find one…