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The Pickle’s word of the week is “more”! It’s difficult to say no when he asks so sweetly for another biscuit, takes hold of my hand and leads me to the kitchen! Like this?Read more… Recommended by The Princess and The Pickle
GlossyBox. The May Box – Anniversary Edition – I’m Counting UFOs
Happy first birthday, GlossyBox! Now you are ONE! I got my box last Friday so I’ve had a week to test the products. I got: Let’s Go Lashes. My own lashes are, well, not great, but not rubbish. I still like to give them a little help every now and then and I love wearing [...]
The old man of lochnagar (and Chris and Tom and me)
Say what you want about the Royals being a waste of space, a drain on the tax payer, or the public sectors biggest useless expense (on a long list of useless expenses) but boy do they know how to pick a place to call home. Like this?Read more… Recommended by KEYNKO – A CRAFTY FAMILY
Raising A Vegan Baby – fipeacock’s blog
My husband and I have been vegan for almost five years. It’s not really something that requires much thought after that long; it’s just become part of everyday life. There are some foods we choose not to eat, some products we choose not to buy, and some activities we choose not to engage in (like [...]
Ten mighty fine FREE WordPress responsive themes
#1 Blaskan “Blaskan is a responsive theme built for smartphones, tablets as well as laptop and desktop computers. There are a number of available options to customize how it looks and works in the theme options. You can add your own header image, background image/color, custom menus, choose between two different fonts for the titles, customize [...]
#tippingpoint
On Wednesday night, while we were all asleep upstairs, two men tried to break into our house. Fortunately, they were not Britain’s most talented burglars and didn’t manage to get in (score one for the solid Victorian front door) but we still had 10 rather terrifying minutes not knowing whether they had made it in [...]
My magazine dilemma
I used to love reading magazines. I would buy one a week and leisurely read a bit at a time. Then I had kids. Now nothing seems relevant to me. Now I stand in front of the magazine shelves in Sainsbury’s and don’t have a clue what to choose. I’m a 36 year old married [...]
2 short jokes
Food inspector in a bakery catches Paddy using his false teeth to do the design on the edge of the apple pies. Horrified she screams “Have you not got a tool?” Like this?Read more… Recommended by Dribbling Pensioner
Paddy on ‘ millionaire ‘
Paddy, has just got his 2nd question right on who wants to be a millionaire and is now on £200. Here is the 3rd question. Who was the great train robber? was it. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Dribbling Pensioner
How do you define morbid?
Sadly last week, my husband unexpectedly lost his mother. She had lived a long and enjoyable life, lasting into her eighties. She spent her retirement years down east, so when we were told of her passing, we along with other family members hoped on a plane. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Catherine’s thoughts
Caitlin Moran and Jennifer Saunders – two of the funniest women in the country
In fact wannabe journalists could learn a lot from the brilliant Caitlin Moran in action as an interviewer. Far from sticking to safe, boring questions, the conversation ranged from whether Saunders considered herself a feminist (yes) to the last time she got drunk to the last time she called 999. Actually, if any of her [...]
Parents Night
To you and other parents who are fighting bureaucracy or policies that do not deliver what they say and who have to cope with crap day in, day out…..Try not to let those bastards get you down. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Random Pearls Of Wisdom
Enoki Dream
Do wonders with Enoki mushrooms. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Life,Ninja Killer Cat and Everything Else
A Princess House made by a Queen
When I asked Mammasaurus to guest write my Golden Jubilee post, I knew it would be good. But a whole Grand Designs project? Like this?Read more… Recommended by KEYNKO – A CRAFTY FAMILY
A Princess House made by a Queen
When I asked Mammasaurus to guest write my Golden Jubilee post, I knew it would be good. But a whole Grand Designs project? Like this?Read more… Recommended by KEYNKO – A CRAFTY FAMILY
Teaching your Love or Teaching Your Passion? A Thousand Splendid Suns
I love to read. I adore literature. It was the only thing I ever really excelled at in school and I passed with an A* can you believe? Weirdly I decided to go on and study Science at University and so trained as a Science Teacher, but secretly there is an English teacher desperate to [...]
Knights and Castles
My Friday Mornings are just blissful with BB. We have been enjoying trips into town, shopping for new shoes for him and always stopping for a hot chocolate. Every time we walk from the car park to town, we walk through the Castle Park and this week Noah asked if he could go in the [...]
Knights and Castles
My Friday Mornings are just blissful with BB. We have been enjoying trips into town, shopping for new shoes for him and always stopping for a hot chocolate. Every time we walk from the car park to town, we walk through the Castle Park and this week Noah asked if he could go in the [...]
Pregnancy diary: week 18 – a bug (not of the insect variety)
It’s been another hard week of feeling pretty rubbish and having to get on with everything anyway. The thing about being pregnant and getting ill is that whatever it is seems to feel 10 times worse than it would if I wasn’t pregnant. I guess we’re also more prone to getting bugs now that we [...]
Oat and raisin cookies
After a bit about pregnancy sickness, I go on to say this…… The other day I thought it was time that I tested whether I can stand the smell of baking, and although I wasn’t overly fussed about eating freshly baked goods like I usually am, I wanted to take some along to our La [...]
www.mummyratesit.co.uk
Hooray! Here comes the Diamond Jubilee Weekend and it’s promising to be a real sparkler. As we celebrate 60 years of Queen Elizabeth II on the throne there’ll be more parades, processions, balcony waving and general merriment than you can wave a Union Jack at. If you want to celebrate in style, why not pick [...]
Creative Playhouse
I wanted to share this quick, delicious snack with you. Yesterday we baked some cakes and surprisingly had some melted chocolate left over (I know!!); I have to admit that I was a bit chocoalte-ed out after eating a fair amount of the cake mixture, butter cream and chocolate chips, but I didn’t want to [...]
I am peeping out from behind the sun
So this week I am 15 weeks pregnant! Wow, how is that possible? To be honest I think I have been so concentrating on trying to not feel so ill that I have been taking each day as it comes. I have spent so many days laying on my bed between school runs thinking, just [...]
Why, mummy, why?
The wonderful Mummy Central put together the most hilarious tagging meme last week, and I felt compelled to join in. It was, quite simply, brilliant. She put together a list of “why” questions for our little ones. They ask us Why all the time, so its lets turn the tables! I loved the idea, so [...]
The Farm Yard and The Green and Black Goblers »
It’s a sunny day and all the farm animals are outside playing and eating. The horses are running around, and the pigs are rolling in the mud. Suddenly the cow looks up and looks at his mummy and asks ” what is that Mummy” “What is what Darling?” “It’s a….” “A huge Chicken run, run [...]
Rhianna Lily’s Birth Part Two 23/03/2012 » andthenallithoughtaboutwasyou.com
This post has taken me a long time to write, I have thought about it a lot, I think about this near on every day but writing it down has been hard. But something that I have wanted to do, needed to do. Part One can be read here. We sat in the room and [...]
New and Exciting Plans!
So we have had some exciting news in the past few weeks, we went to the Isle of Wight and I got a little surprise. Like this?Read more… Recommended by And Then All I Thought About Was You
Our summer holiday in Lanzarote
We’ve always been used to taking our holidays out of season, so I don’t know how we’re going to cope when we have little ones at school and have to brave holiday resorts in the school holidays, along with the associated higher costs. We’ve just got back from a lovely week in Lanzarote, at the [...]
LAB It!
Hi everyone *waves and jumps about like a mad woman* It feels like its been ages since iv blogged (i know it hasn’t been that long really *Pah*Who knows!!) But there’s a few reasons why i havent been writing 1. My laptop got sent back to where it came from as it’s still poorly (iv [...]
Can I shave my legs yet?
I have this beautiful hair. At least that’s what everyone tells me. Problem is, as well as my head, I have it on my arms and legs. Not as long, obviously, but long and thick enough for me (and others) to notice it. I have mumbled about it on and off for a year now, [...]
