It is the summer holidays if you hadn’t noticed and it is the season of the Holiday Club. We’re three weeks in and it’s that time where everyone has used up their leave or is spreading it out, and have enlisted The Holiday Club to […]
In order to save money and to eat better throughout the week, I’m getting into the habit of making a weekly meal plan. Yes, snooze, I know. But every time I don’t do it my brain goes to mush. My organisation goes out the window […]
Working from home is sometimes seen as the holy grail for working mums. Don’t get me wrong, there are definitely massive pluses. However, I’ve found, over the couple of months that there are a few negatives too. So I have jotted down the top 5 […]
So this is my belated new year’s post and my ‘where the hell have I been’ post and I shall try and do this all in under 500 words so as not to bore you silly. My last post was early November, before work got […]
WARNING: There is mention of the C word in this post. If you’re the sort of person that has Christmas perfectly planned-out, with presents bought months in advance, wrapping done and everything neatly stored away in readiness for the big day then great! Good […]
Yesterday evening you would’ve found me counting out my coppers at the Sainsbury’s self checkout because I am absolutely, 100%, completely, utterly skint. School summer holidays have been a complete eye opener this year and, despite attempting to budget for it and budgeting well for Charlotte’s birthday […]
Whilst the sun has been shining outside I am stuck at my computer, trying to get my head around the annual conundrum that is tax credits. The groan heard around the country when that A4 envelope thuds through the letter box must be audible […]
Happy new year everyone. I hope you had a good one last night, whatever that may mean. Despite being childfree, I spent the evening at my best friends house and drank absolutely nothing. I got back home just as Big Ben chimed on the car […]
There were lots of things I was completely ignorant to when it came to coeliac disease. My best friend has been diagnosed with it for about 10 years now but I still had no idea about the cross-contamination side of things until Charlotte was diagnosed. […]
I’ve joined Weight Watchers…again. I know, I know, I said I’d never do it, but the scales had ticked over to my dreaded number and I had to take action. It was the number that makes me say “No more”. The number that makes me […]
