Tweet It’s British Sandwich Week this week, and during our Sunday morning ritual of all my family (me, Mr and our boys, along with my brother, my sister in law, Amanda, and their children) congregating at my parents house for bacon or sausage sandwiches, the conversation turned to the recent Halal controversy, and from there […]
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My Motivation (When The Going Gets Tough)
Tweet As a mum it’s all too easy to get worn down by the humdrum, the day to day running of the house, the never ending chores, the day job and the the occasional minute of me-time (which invariably turns into a quick clear up before the next thing on the to do list). There […]
A History of Carlisle
Tweet Carlisle may be an unassuming little city positioned on the Northern edge of England, just 8 miles from the Scottish border, with claims to fame such as the most promiscuous city in Europe (perhaps Carlisle men just aren’t that good at counting) and also Britain’s happiest city (are the two related?) When is comes […]
Inspector Gadget
Tweet Hands up who remembers the 1980’s cartoon Inspector Gadget? Go, go gadget arms! He had a gadget for everything, and despite being a bit, well, dim, he always came out on top – mostly thanks to his amazing gadget technology. I am a bit of a gadget girl, and have a particular soft spot […]
Super Hero Roller Skating
Tweet After almost 15 years with my husband, you’d think I would have nothing new to learn about him… Oh how wrong I was! It turns out that he is Mr Clairey, wonderful but slightly geeky software developer, by day… but give him a bank holiday weekend and he turns into RollerMan: solving mysteries, saving children from […]
Playing Catchup with BEDM
Tweet Today, via my lovely sister in law, Amanda, I came across the BEDM hashtag. Being a nosy so-and-so, I wanted to know what it meant, and how I could join in (no-one likes being left out, right?). It turns out BEDM stands for Blog Every Day in May and is hosted by Elizabeth at Rosalilium. As much […]