Category: Family Life
“You don’t look ill”, “Aren’t people with Crohn’s skinny?”, “All you need to do is stop eating xyz and you’ll get better”, “Have you tried Aloe Vera/Juice Plus/Forever Living?” All things I have heard in the few years since I was diagnosed. All are frankly bollocks. No, if I wear …
I love my kids, I really do but they often do things that make me want to tear my hair out That’s one of the reasons I got into this blogging lark, it kind of keeps me sane. So, without further ado here are things that my kids do on …
A couple of weeks ago I abandoned left my children in the capable hands of my partner in sunny Kent and caught the train to Manchester for the weekend to attend my first ever blogging conference – Blog On Xmas. I travelled up with the (sort of) lovely Fran from …
A week or so ago we went on a family outing to Boots Opticians, I know – we know how to live life on the edge. Monsieur Incidental and I are no strangers to myopia and my mum suggested that while we were there we had Big L’s eyes tested. …
I have more than a passing interest in horoscopes and the like, even more so that Monsieur Incidental and I share a birthday. I know it’s a bit weird, it seemed romantic when we first met but now not so much. I do feel that people tend to have the …
A little while ago I bought Little L some Bear Fruit Paws – you may be familiar with them they also make Fruit Yoyos which Big L was addicted to for about a month until he decided he no longer liked them. Anyway, they are kind of guilt free gummy …
I am FORTY next week. Apart from going on about it quite a lot I’m not really that bothered. Age is just a number and if you’re only as old as the man you’re feeling then you can subtract 7 years – oh yes! It has got me thinking a …
I am a little perturbed, nay, I’m fuming. MSN have deemed it necessary to give me a best before date just because I’m turning forty with this list 40 things no woman over 40 should own. Well….fuuuuuuck you MSN! Guess what I own a fair few of those things, I …
We’ve lived here seven years but I’ve fallen out of love with my home. This was mine and Monsieur Incidental’s first house together. Both our children were conceived in this house (sorry if that’s too much information but I won’t go into more detail – unless you really want me to), …
