New Year’s Resolutions are a funny thing. For a start, surely it’s better to turn over a new leaf at a time of year when you are not literally etching the days onto a bleak wall like a prisoner waiting to be released, eking out a cold and miserable existence until the crocuses raise their…
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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…
How to Carve a Halloween Pumpkin in Four Easy Steps
I know, I KNOW! I’m back with one of those annoying “how to” posts. You know, the ones I said I’d never do. And this time, I’m Halloweening it up big time, and I figured that as today, at the ripe old age of 37 (never get tired of saying that. I can definitely no…
#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:…