“I’ve only got, like 50 followers.” “I’ve got 32.” “I’ve got TEN.” “I don’t know what followers are, but then I only started blogging last week. Why haven’t I won any awards yet?” “I never get approached by any companies with any budget. It’s like, will you give us these 60 follow links for free…
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#Single Mum Tips: How to Survive Being on a Train with a Toddler
Apologies in advance peeps, for I thought it was time I wrote a tips post. Yes, a tips post. The sort of tedious diatribe where someone sees fit to give you their pearls of wisdom on a subject that you probably know more about than they do. I have read some classics in my time:…
#Single Mum Reviews: Mathmos Lava Lamp
Many months ago, I embarked on the tedious process of buying a house. My stipulations were basic: The property needed to be in or around the Bristol area, and it needed to have more than one bedroom. The purpose of the latter was clear; Piglet and I had been roomies since his birth. There was…
#SchoolsOut Linky #1
Well hello peeps, and welcome to the very first edition of the #SchoolsOut school holiday linky. For those of you who have children at home driving you round the bend, I feel your pain as I am currently writing this with Piglet sat on my lap jabbing me in the hand with the end of…
Introducing…..#SchoolsOut, the School Holiday Linky
I have all my best ideas on the train to work. In the fleeting moments when I have nothing better to do than catch up with the morning’s essential tweets, hidden under my enormous mum-parka wondering when it was that I started wearing clothes that made me look like a giant mushroom, ideas come to me,…
An Interview With Sir Topham Hatt
We meet at the Reform Club, Sir Topham-flanked by Aryan-looking security guards in impeccable Air Force blue uniforms-enters with a flourish, raising his top hat and tossing his cane into the arms of a waiting flunky at the door. “I do hope you haven’t been waiting long,” he says with a wry smile as he…
Single Mum Cooks: Mediterranean vegetables with Greek salad
From lazy Sunday afternoons in The Real Greek to lazy entire weeks in the real Greece, I am a fan of Greek food. A few months back I found a Greek cookbook casually lying around the house, and, realising that this was the same cookbook my parents brought me back from a holiday in…
#FabFridayPost
Welcome to #FabFridayPost guys, with @ethannevelyn and me. Link it up below!
Single Mum Speaks: Award Winning Blogger
“First I’d like to thank my mother, for inspiring my many complaints about her, and for having the good grace to recognise that I am usually joking. Secondly, I would like to thank my friends, for believing in me, and for giving me the likes on Facebook that give my life meaning and validation. Thirdly,…
“There’s no such thing as bad weather. Only bad clothing.”
One of my friends is married to a man who loves the outdoors. I’m not sure if he was the first to come up with this statement, but it was via him (and her) that I first heard it. Personally, my own love of the outdoors was a slow burner. My parents are not what…