Author: Alison
Me, just me. Mum to two lovely frustrating wonderful teenagers. Living in deepest darkest Oxfordshire. Ex Londoner and proud of it - though I don't miss the traffic. Chelsea fan, motorsports fan, avid reader. Love my food, wine and family!
Meet Teddy!
Meet the newest addition to our family … Teddy! Teddy came from West Oxon Cats Protection and is gorgeous!... Read More
Truck 13 review – Day 1
Wow. This weekend we went to Truck 13, my 8th Truck festival. If you’ve never heard of it, Truck is a small music festival held in Oxfordshire. It was the creation of two brothers, Robin and Joe... Read More
Truck 13 review – day 2
So I woke up on Sunday morning, having had about half an hour’s sleep, in a bit of a grump. Soon sorted that out with a bacon roll, coffee and an iced coffee milkshake from the Rotary people, yu... Read More
Proud mum part 2
Now it’s my turn to be proud of Dan! His school held a prize-giving assembly today and he came home with a bucket load of certificates for great effort in maths, IT etc, plus a special award for... Read More
I am a proud mum!
Katie is at her school prom tonight and I am a very proud mum. Katie’s not had an easy time recently – we moved to Oxfordshire from Hampshire 5 years ago, leaving behind all her friends, a... Read More
CBR Redrock dual suspension bike – death trap. Avoid at all costs.
Putting this post up in the hope that it will prevent anyone else buying a CBR Red Rock bike (available from Littlewoods catalogue) as, IMHO, it could well be a deathtrap. Dan (aged nearly 13) was in ... Read More
World Cup 2010 … a bit, well, dull really!
I was SO excited about the World Cup last week, and really enjoyed the SA and England games (apart from that result!) … but otherwise it’s all been a bit dull really. France v Uruguay was ... Read More
Help me decide on a new brand identity!!
OK, so my proofreading/editing business, The Proof Fairy, started by accident and was really a bit of a jokey sideline for a long time – but since November 2009 it’s become my full time bu... Read More
#19 completed: Sort out my paperwork and file away bills
Well it took me the best part of a week, on and off, but I have now sorted out my paperwork. The business stuff came first – I had a year’s worth of expenses receipts to sort out, log and ... Read More
Meet the new addition to the family
I was going to buy Katie a nice piece of jewellery for her 16th birthday (next Wednesday) but she decided she wanted a combined present from everyone – a bearded dragon and vivarium setup! e wen... Read More