June 2020 3 months into lockdown and working from home. It’s had its ups and downs, if I’m honest. I’ve worked from home for 7 years but never been consistently “home-bound” for than a few days, really. It would be easy to structure the post with good bits and bad bits – but the parameters…

September 2019 Walking is boring. I’ve never been a walker. I like outdoors, especially when there is a wooden bench, a glass of amber nectar and tab behind the bar. I also used to like camping before I fell out with inflatable mattresses. I also like running because it takes less time than walking anywhere…

July 2018 This is what happens when 8 adults and 28 (or 49 – whatever) kids go camping. 1. There are no mealtimes. I don’t mean – we-all-sit-down-at-5-oclock mealtimes, I mean that there is absolutely no discernible time allocated for people to eat a meal. None at all. It’s quite passable to cook and eat…

Feb 2017 A gym account by a non gym person. This is what you can expect to happen when you go to a (busy) town gym. 1. You’ll turn into Frank Spencer. You literally trip over everything. It’s as if you don a clumsy guise as soon you you walk in the door. No object…

April 2016 Funny observations from the marathon:  1. The Grappler: There are various points along the course where volunteers dish out  cups of water and sachets of energy gel. They held out handfuls of gels so we could take what we wanted and stuff them in our pockets. This is the weird thing. Everyone in front…

April 2016 It was a Wildlife Extravaganza! On the telly on Wednesday night. Nothing unusual about that, one might say, but Wednesday’s animaux offering was so richly studded with broadcasted bullshit and hyperbole that it is certainly worthy of a mention.  I know exactly how we came to watch River Monsters. I wanted to watch a film,…

May 2015 1. I went for a massage today; I had a voucher for a local day spa that I have been meaning to cash in. I was really looking forward to it – it’s like an acceptable grope fest and they make me feel wanted.  2. I’m not great at relaxing. It makes me…

August 2014 1. Felt pen sharing etiquette. There is certainly an unwritten rule in our house that all the pinks, reds, purples and blues are property exclusively of the girl. All the blacks, browns, greys and the dried up yellows are the sole property of the boy.2. I’ve been feeling a bit miserable today. Fellow…

April 2015 It’s been a while friends. 1. Half Term. It’s my first real long one; I’m new to being a mum to a pre-schooler. Anyway, I was a little miffed to see that, on the last day of going to school, Annie didn’t bring home a leaflet from the teachers telling us what we…

August 2014 1. We’ve just returned from a camping trip with the kids. It was our first time in the tent. It was fairly endearing in the sense that you only realise the meaning of family when you are all together as one little unit. The true meaning is stress and hassle. That’s the true…