Question: have you ever been told that you resemble somebody famous? Next question: was the comparison flattering or the complete opposite? For some reason, I seem to have got it a lot. Here are five famous faces I have been told I look like. Obviously, I’m not going to use pictures of them here as …
Month: June 2012
Yes, I know that headline isn’t grammatically correct, but I’m tired. Really tired, in fact. Yes, as I write this, I’m still knackered from the experience that was attending my first ever blogging conference. BritMums Live was a great event, densely populated by genuinely lovely but nonetheless irritatingly talented people. I will confess now to having …
As I’m lucky enough to be going to BritMums Live on Friday, it struck me that I really ought to write a post about it. So, erm, here is said post. This will be my first such conference and I’m really looking forward to it. There’s an amazing lineup of keynote speakers and workshops in …
It’s nice when people come to you for your opinion, especially when they cite you as an authority on a certain subject in the process. It doesn’t happen often – well, not to me anyway – which is why I’ve had a spring in my step since the nice people at Next got in touch …
Dylan will be two in just under a month. Two! Insert your favourite cliché about the rather speedy nature of time here. One thing that we have been dreading about this particular stage in his development is the so-called ‘terrible twos’ that raise their ugly head round about this time. Well they’ve started. He’s a …
My parents made a shocking admission to me recently: when I was but a child, they duped me into eating some meat I didn’t like the look of by telling me it was ‘Sussex ham’. Shocking behaviour, I know. But by all accounts I readily believed this rather lame fib and wolfed it down. Here we …
Like a lot of people, I’m not very good at keeping up with news and am also finding that time to write this blog is hard to come by. Not today. When I heard about the latest acts of sadistic violence in Syria and the subsequent day of action in the parent blogging community, I …