I am currently sitting on the sofa. It is Sunday, and there is no work tomorrow. Instead there is a week stretching ahead of me in which I must make up for all the time I didn’t have in term time by making sure I’m up to date with work, fitting in all the life…
Tag: #SchoolsOut
Ten Ways to Survive Twixtmas
It was the day before Twixtmas, and all through the house….. Oh hang on, the day before Twixtmas is Christmas Day, and precisely nobody-except, I imagine, those who are profoundly lonely or whose family are a shower of b******s-spends Christmas Day ruminating on the joys of the next day. After all, we’re all too busy…
The Joy of Lazy Days
Half term. That frenzied time when you have one week to catch up on all those little jobs; the niggling bits of life admin that have a tendency to creep up on you until they make up a to-do list longer than your arm. Yet it’s also that one week when you have all the…
#SchoolsOut linky: Bumper Christmas Edition!
Christmas, I have noticed these past two years, seems to be a time when bloggers slow down, switch off, and concentrate on packing their Instagram feeds full of cosy snapshots of family life-board games, paper hats and long walks in the countryside with children and dogs and festive knitwear. In short, it’s the essence of hygge….
#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,…