Kaycee wanted to make Nanny a present for her birthday that was just from her. I’ve been helping Ant with sorting out his office and he was chucking out a lot of CDs so I saved them for the girls to use in their crafting. […]
Back to my weekly weigh-ins – I’ve been doing Slimming World for 3 years now. I lost 7.5 stone in my first year and since then I’ve been maintaining the loss, which I’m extremely proud of as I usually go on diets, lose some then give […]
I haven’t had my desk long because we had nowhere to put one in the house. When Ant built the cover over the porch earlier this year, giving us loads more room, I knew it would be wonderful to have a desk out there. It’s […]
Yesterday, we drove to Derbyshire so we could celebrate my Uncle Chris’s 50th birthday. We had a gorgeous Sunday lunch at the Marquis of Ormonde and I was able to catch up with all the aunts, uncles and cousins I haven’t seen for years. I had […]
It was Kaycee’s turn to cook a three course meal for our second Come Dine With Me night and we invited granddad again. Kaycee’s 2 years older than Ella and she made 95% of the meal herself. She served an open sandwich with apple chutney, […]
The girls love playing, Come Dine With Me, they picked it as one of their summer bucket list activities. When we first played, we started off with them making a course each (when Aiden was here) and we’d score each course. Now they want to make […]
We’d planned to go to Skegness for the day but the traffic was busy and after seeing 10 cars take the exit to Skegness and only 3 take the exit to Mablethorpe, we went to Mablethorpe! Mablethorpe is quieter than Skeggy and I used to […]
We’ve only got a couple of weeks of the summer holidays left. It’s gone really quickly and I’m not looking forward to getting back into the school routine. We’ve managed a few things on our summer bucket list so I thought I’d do a summer bucket […]
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that my downstairs shower room is, not quite from the dark ages, but still, very old! The previous owner bricked up the wall where the front door used to be and turned the entrance hall into a shower […]
Buddleia A couple of years ago, for Mother’s Day, the kids bought me a buddleia. I planted it in our garden and it grew a little bit but nothing to get excited about. We were in the process of moving house, just starting to dismantle […]
