A look at stuff that’s been experienced first hand.
Today the children and I picniced with a friend and her boys on the Stray. The Stray is an area of grass measuring 200acres square running through Harrogate. It belongs to the local residents and as such cannot be built on or used for anything not community based. The Stray always must measure 200 acres so if one section of… Read more →
Today the children and I watched Hotel Transylvania. The story revolves around Count Dracula and his daughter Mavis who is about to come of age at 118. Count Dracula has a fear of humans and has built the Hotel Transylvania in the middle of nowhere to ensure his beloved daughter never has to encounter any humans and no humans can… Read more →
Matt is on a stag do, in Brighton. Whilst he ia away I am on child, dog, house, and food duty. Also it’s my friends hen do, so if I can, I would love to go and spend some time with them. As it’s partially a day event I can bring the girls along and escort them home when everyone… Read more →
This Lemon drizzle mufffin recipe comes highly recommended by everyone at Dragondrop.
I borrowed an energy meter from the library. It shows how much electricity is currently being used and what level energy consumption reached the previous morning, evening and afternoon. At first I checked it all the time reminding everyone to switch everything off and chastising those who left their xbox on all the time. I got a little blase after… Read more →
Currently on Facebook there is a trend for ladies posting selfies (pictures of themselves) without any makeup on. The aim is to bare yourself and then donate to Cancer research (www.cruk.org). Over 1 million has already been donated in the past 24 hours. Breast cancer research UK were very surprised at the sudden rise in donations especially as they didn’t… Read more →
I was going to write a blog today all about www.yorkshirebrickshow.co.uk  at the National coal mining museum today. It is just one of many things that I was going to do today. The first was get up early and get to the Lego exhibition for when it opened. Well, we did get up early thanks to Annie and her love of… Read more →
I have just finished listening to’Where memories go’. It’s the story of Magnus Magnusson’s wife’s descent into dementia written by his daughter Sally Magnusson, serialised on radio 4′s book of the week. What a wonderful gift from a daughter to her mother. Poignant and funny, written with such love and tenderness, Â Sally’s mother must have been such a wonderful lady… Read more →
Just before Christmas we were given two , one week’s free membership to the Academy. The Academy is a health club in Harrogate. Â It’s so much nicer then the local swim baths. There is carpet on the floor in the changing rooms, the power shower’s temperature is adjustable not universally boiling or freezing. Most important though is the fact the… Read more →
Matt and I finished ‘Breaking Bad’ last night. It was a hard fought battle my behalf  to get through to the end as there were quite a few episodes that put me so far out of my comfort zone I was nearly sat next door. The story revolves around Walter White an uninspiring science teacher who finds out he has… Read more →
While Matt and Jaygo braved the elements, Sophie and I decided to take Annie for her first visit to the cinema. We went to the eleven o’clock kids club at the Harrogate Odeon cinema. It used to be one adult free per child but apparently that changed a while ago (shows how long it’s been since we last went). It… Read more →
Jaygo and I have just finished reading ‘Gangsta Granny,’ by David Walliams. Its the tale of a twelve year old boy who detests going to visit his sad cabbagey old grandmother until one day he discovers a secret hoard of jewels in her biscuit tin. Where have they come from and why are they there? Suddenly Granny seems a… Read more →
I have been doing some research on how to get Annie-Mo to sleep well during her naps. She sleeps brilliantly at night (thank goodness) and often when I mention that she isn’t sleeping well during nap time people smile and say,” well at least she sleeps well at night”. Obviously it is good that she does sleep at night but… Read more →
364.5 Days ago I launched a project to blog every day throughout 2013. Publishing this very post will complete that project. By way of something to write about today, I thought I’d surface some of my fave moments, and (going by view stats) some of yours. It’s been a remarkable year. Some of it I knew was coming – the… Read more →
Tip top night. It got to about 21:30 and there was no one in the house. Why am I doing this, thought I – it was empty. My wingman had pulled out at the last minute for personal reasons (he turned up later though) which made me happy. By 21:35, it was busy. It was as if someone had dropped… Read more →
Drinking Pastis whilst waiting for my friend to cook first #BBQ of the season. t.co/hAXXUxUzwJ
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