Welcome to the third instalment of my lockdown diaries, or covid-19 diary, which I have simply called a diary of unprecedented times because who knows what will happen next! You might notice that I have moved away from Roman Numerals in the title as it sounds like this series may…
Let’s pick up where we left off in Volume I. Friday, March 27th I’m exhausted though and don’t wake til 10.30am. My last day of taking steroids and I am starting to feel stronger. By the time I come downstairs the kids are at the kitchen table in pyjamas doing…
As I sit on my couch and type this I think about everything that has happened in the last few months. Two months ago I was in Richmond, Virginia visiting my friend. Today, I’m supposed to stay within 2km of my house unless my journey is essential. All local shops…
I’ve been meaning to blog for a while. I have lots of ideas, day trips, observations about my children as they grow up right before my eyes, lists of things. But I was sick, for what seemed like ages. Just as I would get better I’d relapse. Then I was…
I like to get in early with booking my holidays, I love to have something to look forward to. Last year we booked almost a year in advance, so as soon as we got home from Bella Italia this year (OK, full disclosure I may have googled from the deck…
Every year I do a lookback on the highlights of the past year, using headings that originate from a long ago linky. 2019 had lots of great memories, I’ll get to them in a moment. Because, for me, forevermore, 2019 will be the year that my dad died. He died…
When I first blogged about what real women want for Christmas back in 2014 I never thought that 5 years later I’d be saying welcome to the SIXTH annual essential gift guide for real women. The guide, quite possibly inadvertently, has had a name change, it started out being called…
10.12.2019 Six months. For six months my fingers have paused briefly as I flick through clothes hangers in the wardrobe. They stop momentarily on a dress, a black one with birds, made of comfortable jersey. I used to wear it most weeks to work, my comfiest work dress that still…
I am a firm believer in reducing clutter and not just giving people “stuff” for Christmas. I’m also a big fan of a good day out, so with that dual purpose I’ve put together this list of Christmas gift ideas for families that are vouchers for doing things as opposed…
We were recently invited to review the Ghostbus Kids’ Tour from DoDublin. They’re the crowd that have done the done the adult version for years, and I’d often meant to take it, but I softened. The new offering is a child-friendly ghost tour, done on “the Ghost Bus”. We’d never…
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