Month: December 2010

White

This week lovely Tara’s Gallery theme is White. I did think I could go a bit oblique on this, and sidestep the obvious snowy picture – but then I thought, nah. I’m just not in a clever mood, snow is beautiful and fleeting and, more importantly, I actually have quite a good picture to use. It’s of the playground opposite the …

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Four in a row

Sponsored Post Oh my goodness, those clever chappies at the Radisson Park Inn have come up with a devilishly cunning game in their great holiday giveaway competition. As if it wasn’t enough that they are offering free week-long holidays – free, I tell you! – in Berlin and Tunisia, as well as £250 vouchers to be spent …

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Galaxy giveaway

‘You’re so sweet, I should give you up for Lent,’ says one of the characters in Katie Fforde’s lovely new book, Wedding Season. It’s a deliciously appropriate line for this toothsome tale of three friends whose lives become as interwoven as a Curly Wurly – though we shouldn’t be mentioning those as they’re made by …

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Snowberries

I can’t pretend I am a big snow fan – after the initial gasps at its beauty, I’m afraid I get caught up in anxiety about driving, breaking my neck walking down my ungritted road, and the possibilities of my little dears dying of exposure while throwing snowballs (I know it’s silly) but every now and …

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Let’s be Co-operative

Sponsored Post I used to think that the Co-op was just the name for a slightly down-at-heel chain of supermarkets. Turns out it’s a lot more than that. It’s had a revamp of late, it’s started to call itself The Co-operative and it’s got the lovely David Tennant (or someone equally yummy-sounding) doing its TV …

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Celebration

I know I usually make a big deal about not using identifiable pictures on my blog (though some would say most of my pictures are so bad they automatically make everyone unidentifiable anyway), but did you hear that sound of shattering just then? Yep, it’s a rule being broken. My photo today is for the …

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Review time

We’ve been sent a few classics this month to be put through the rufty-tufty Divorce Towers product testing procedure: 1 Vosene’s new range of head lice repellent conditioning shampoo and detangling spray. While I can’t pretend this kit was high on mummy-pleasing glamour, it was extremely useful to ward off the legions of head lice …

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