It was a wet Wednesday morning. My daughter had woken up in a mood which got worse when she saw that both her school trousers were in the wash and she didn’t want to wear a skirt. She’d worn one pair on Monday and one on Tuesday – this was [...]
I’d been saving up for months because I had a little something I wanted to buy. Every time I earned some money, I’d put it aside into my ‘Robot Fund’ but then one thing or another cropped up and I had to use the money for other household expenses. However [...]
The £1 coin is 30 years old! I remember so clearly when it actually launched. I was 8 at the time and I remember wishing with all my might that I’d find a trail of £1 coins on the floor – like Hansel and Gretel and their trail of breadcrumbs. [...]
You know a fashion dies a death when ‘mum’ starts wearing it.
I remember studying this when I was at the London College of Fashion – youth and subcultures etc. How clothing is an expression and a differentiator from your parents. So when the parents start wearing the fashion, the [...]
I’m usually pretty well stocked when it comes to health & beauty and household items- I have a storecupboard to keep spares in so we never run out. But this week a Shoppertunity™ came through from the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® team who I’m working with, so I decided to [...]
If your family is like mine then ‘mum’ does all the packing for everyone on a family short break, but do you ever get there and find that you have catered for everyone else and forgotten something for yourself?! I do!
Lately we’ve been at the mercy of the UK weather. Having snow and ice on the run up to Easter, the weather says it’s winter but the clocks say it’s summer!
I’m always happiest when there is a bit of sunshine- it doesn’t even have to be warm, just sunny [...]
