Sponsored post I’ve done a few odd things in the name of mummy blogging – hiding round the back of a hotel in Barcelona cackling with laughter at 3am and eating a top chef’s tomato ketchup gateau spring to mind – but Sunday’s was probably up there with the most unusual. I was a stunt taster …
I’ve been glued to the News of the World scandal as it has unravelled. I admit I only became sucked in when the horrific news came out that murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone had been hacked. When it was just the likes of Hugh Grant, I’m afraid I just shrugged. Having worked for nearly seven …
I feel rather sad that it’s the last Harry Potter premiere tonight. So much of the girls’ childhood has been caught up with the boy wizard. When they were very small, a friend gave them a bubble bath bottle with a plastic Harry on the top, flying. That was our first encounter with Pottermania. At …
This week lovely Tara’s Gallery theme is Grandparents. In my case, it’s more specifically Grandmother. My grandmother was one of those larger-than-life people who cannot get on a bus without making friends with the people sitting next to her, the people down the other end, and the conductor too. She was the life and soul. …
I’m so excited – my online book group idea has worked! Lovely people have signed up – well not signed, there’s nothing that formal, but have *indicated* enthusiasm and a willingness to read the chosen book – and so we’re all systems go. I think it’s going to be really fun. Here’s the plan. We …
My dear friend Dulwich Mum is probably better known for her impeccable taste in doggies (she has a divine cockapoo) than for her ardent political activism. But there is a time when even the most dedicated of Dulwich mothers must throw down her frappucino and man the barricades in pursuit of truth and justice. Or …
I’ve been thinking about setting up a Book Club here for a while, but all the talk of finding niches at Cybermummy has made me feel I should stop shilly-shallying and just get on with it! You may have noticed that I have a little box on the right-hand side listing a book I’m reading …
Well, off I went to Cybermummy 11 and good fun it was too, so thank you so much to Tesco Real Food for my ticket. I’m not sure if I’m really a conference person, though. The bits I enjoyed were meeting blogging friends, eating cupcakes, eating the lunch (is there a theme developing here?) and …
I’m a bit nervous about Cybermummy 11 tomorrow. To be honest, if lovely Tesco Real Food hadn’t sponsored me, I would probably think of a million reasons not to turn up. These would range from taking Child One to her Duke of Edinburgh volunteering, which she insists on calling her ‘community service’, to getting a …
This is my entry for lovely Tara’s Three Word Wednesday Gallery. On Sunday I had a brainwave. The very big chair upstairs would look better downstairs. I was definitely right (I always am). But there was a problem. I was alone in the house. And the big chair was very big. Very, very big. Because …