Heart palpitation moment. After 10 years of rain growing from a trickle-tickle and into an indoor waterfall-feature within your home, you finally realise that you need a bit of a re-roofing jobby. And because your dear wee housie is a 4 storey 1790s weaver cottage, you require the entire thing to be scaffolded-up. Bummer-moments; the […]
I Don’t Bring Me Flowers.
“Hey Mum! Dad’s home and looks like he’s bought you some flowers!” It’s been a long and hard few weeks. To say the least. Dishwasher died just before Christmas. Okay – the least of my worries, but bloody annoying nonetheless. Although I’ve been putting on a brave face. I’ve been trying to *pretend* that I […]
Chocs Away!
Well, I thought that ‘Chocs Away’ was a much better title than ‘All About My Book Launch.’ If you are a newcomer to this blog (welcome pals!) then you will soon discover that my daughter has dyslexia and that it leads to many interesting ‘language moments’ … (See ‘Be Enterprising’ blog below.) As we were […]
Bicycles … Yorkshire … Africa?
Me. Fresh as a daisy! Yeah, right. Back from sub-saharan Africa … a houseswap … a work-related project … and a ‘holiday’ (employing inverted commas here because is it *ever* a holiday when accompanied by humans under the age of 21 who happen to be your own, delightful offspring?) So much to report on and […]