I’m sitting here with tears streaming down my face, wondering how on earth I’m going to get through writing this post. It has, in fact, taken me all week to get it written. I’ve come to write it nearly every…
Some of you may know that way back in the 1990s I did a photography degree – and what I actually wanted to do when graduating was fashion photography. My dreams of becoming the next David Bailey (oh how that…
Last week I published part one of my sitcom-worthy family stories… today is part two! I’ve got tales of eating other people’s cake, my dad in his underpants on a boat and (I’m so sorry) childhood vomiting stories. If you…
Seeing Keith hopelessly chasing a huge Friesian cow in a neighbour’s garden is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s one of those stories that no matter how many times you tell it, it never…
Here’s my first quarterly review post of the year – with a little of last year thrown in too! April is now upon us (hurrah! I love me some spring and summer!) and the last quarterly review I did was…
I think, just maybe, that I cracked the “what to wear for a European sightseeing break” dilemma last week. I assembled what could be described as a capsule wardrobe-style set of outfits and fitted them all in my (medium sized)…
I’m taking a short break from the blog: we’ve just had some pretty crappy news in the family. I wanted to post today just to say that I’ll not be posting at all next week – I think it will be the…
After nearly six years of full-time self-employment, I can safely say I’m someone who knows about working from home. And it’s not easy! I often find people are envious of the fact that I work from home and that I’m…
It may be Valentine’s Day today, but this ain’t no mushy ode to my beloved. No Valentine’s gifts guides here either (I’d have left it a bit late anyway). Nor am I featuring a Valentine’s Day outfit in red and…
