Bitten by the (DIY) bug
I’d never understood people who said they enjoyed DIY or interior design or doing houses up. What’s wrong with them? Didn’t they have better things…
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Making a start (the new house)
After the excitement of finally getting the keys and standing outside our new house and revelling in the fact that it was actually ours, reality…
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Project 365 – Week 2
Week 2 of Project 365 and it has been an exciting, amazing, busy and stressful week. It’s been a week we’ve been waiting for since…
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Getting the keys
Way back when our move first went pear-shaped we exchanged contracts on the new house and were given a final completion date of 10th January. But it…
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Should I stay or should I go?
It’s been a few days now since the deadline passed to apply for voluntary redundancy at work. After thinking about it long and hard, I…
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Project 365 Week 1
I’ve had it in mind to take part in Project 365, hosted by The Boy and Me for a long time now. Basically you take a…
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Making sense of the world
My daughter is a neat freak. Everything she owns, everything she does is tidy and organised – her writing, her clothes, her hair, her bedroom……
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Old Year, New Year
When I look back at 2013, my view is somewhat clouded by the last couple of weeks in November when everything started to go a bit pear-shaped….
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A normal Christmas?
Last year was not a normal Christmas. My husband and two boys had flu right through the Christmas period and nothing felt right. We didn’t…
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The Gallery: Christmas tree
These last few weeks haven’t exactly been plain sailing – starting with my husband’s cut face through having my wisdom teeth out to the house move that nearly wasn’t, then…
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First world problems
Right now (and for the foreseeable future), I feel like I’m stuck inside one massive great first world problem. Or maybe I just went back…
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A monumentally rubbish day
It was one of those monumentally rubbish days where all the stresses and pressures of my busy life combined with the stresses of living in…
