The kids have been on about wanting a kitten for ages. I wasn’t so sure but eventually said yes, we’d get one after our holiday. As I’m involved with West Oxfordshire Cats Protection...Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Over the weekend I drank way too much alcohol (bad girl!) – mainly wine but I did manage to include a couple of beers. On Saturday I had a bottle of Hobgoblin which was very yummy, quite sweet a...Read More