I’ve just celebrated ten years on Twitter. Well, I say I celebrated, I didn’t actually realise until yesterday when it prompted me to share a tweet to mark the occasion. I love Twitter. It’s definitely my favourite social media platform and is the one that has served me best as a blogger. I’ve made some …
Month: January 2019
Disclosure: this is a paid collaboration with Shirtbox. One of the best things about being my own boss is that I can wear what I like. Jeans and hoodies are the order of the day, along with T-shirts. That said, a fair few of those in my T-shirt drawer are older than all three of my …
Youngest’s latest obsession is a contender to be the most annoying one yet. She’s constantly talking about presents. Now, I’ll preface this by pointing out that she’s not a greedy child at all. Nor is she spoilt. It’s simply down to the way things have panned out in the last few months. It started in …
Big news. The three-year-old finally gave up her dummy recently. The plan was for her to ditch it before she turned three, but we’re only a month and a half behind schedule. As the carnival surrounding Christmas happened in the intervening period I’m happy with that. So another parenting battle has been won but at …
Disclosure: this is a paid collaboration with Neos SmartCam. If you’re anything like me, you worry about your home while you’re out. More specifically, I worry about the damage that my nemesis – our cat – can do to ours. She loves knocking things over, sleeping where she shouldn’t and scratching furniture when we’re not …
Last year I wrote a post about learning to let my kids make mistakes so they can learn from them. It’s a learning curve that I’m very much still on and it’s far from easy. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to debate a related topic on national radio. If you follow BBC Radio 5 Live’s …
There’s nothing quite like completing your tax return to remind you of your duties as a self-employed person! I did mine last week and, before doing so, have to admit that I’d got a little comfortable working both for myself and from home. I usually wait until January to do mine as it’s a useful …
It’s always funny, if sometimes a little cringe-worthy, to hear your own words uttered by a toddler. Since cracking the whole stringing sentences together lark, youngest has come out with some corkers. Particularly recently. Of course, she mostly says the kind of things you’d expect from a three-year-old. For example, we still haven’t had the …
Our house has been on the market since September and, thanks to Brexit, things have been really slow. We’ve had a sum total of two viewings. Two! We’re reliably informed that the market is picking up locally though and have also dropped our already-reasonable asking price a tad, so are cautiously optimistic. We’re not going …
Ever since I published my first Mixtapes post last January, I’ve been meaning to write another one. Well, film sequels often take a year, so why shouldn’t music, eh? The penultimate song on that first playlist was one I thought my children would choose. So, following that theme, here are five tracks that could also be …