I’ve been asked to choose a selection of travel posts for a monthly Travel Round-up on BritMums, which, as many of you know, is Britain’s biggest parent blogging network. The plan is once a...
Mum’s Gone to Stratford-upon-Avon
Mum did go to Stratford-upon-Avon, but it was in 2009 before I’d started blogging. I didn’t write a diary at the time to type up at a later date but memories of a fantastic...
La Plume de Ma Tante est dans le Tupperware Box
Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ wondering what he should have in his packed lunch Not since Harold stood with both eyes looking out over the English Channel in October 1066 has a French invasion been so...
Going for Gold
2004 was an Olympic year. In Athens, finely sculpted bodies were pushing themselves to the limit to be ‘faster, higher, stronger’ while on the Mediterranean island of Menorca my body, seemingly sculpted with a...
Opportunity Knocks Revisited
Did you see The One Show last Friday? They were revisiting the famous talent show, Opportunity Knocks. While I was watching the interview with former child star, Neil Reid, and listening to some of...
The French are Coming!
This weekend was mostly spent trying to sort out the spare room in preparation for a French invasion. Rory’s school are participating in a student exchange and, despite me thinking he wouldn’t be keen, our son...
Mum’s planning to go to Sweden
It’s that time of year; holiday planning. As usual we have been all around the globe over the last few weeks considering where we fancy going this summer and seem to have plumped for...
Up Jacob’s Creek without a paddle
I don’t know if any of you have been watching the episodes of Celebrity Mastermind but in our house we are Sky plus-ing them like mad, for sheer entertainment value. The nation’s favourite reality...