The monkeys are on holiday with their Mum for Halloween and they’ve asked that we celebrate it before they go. I’ve always done Halloween with school or Brownies and I trick or treated as a child but Halloween has got bigger in the last ten...
…but Christmas is coming. I know, I know. Actually, I must stop faking it. I am so excited I’m going cross-eyed. I start my Christmas present spreadsheet on Boxing Day as I gather ideas for people by what we’ve talked about on Christmas Day....
My husband mocks me about my war time cookery ability. Not that I can cook a meal from an ounce of liver, powdered egg and a home grown carrot, but that I can cook in a war zone. I am daft enough to think that the chaos around me will not affect me in the...
So three years ago today I met the husband. We met online after I experienced a short but enlightening period of internet dating. The puppeteer, the foot fetishists and the leader of men are fodder for my future sitcom. The husband was different. He used his real...
Turning 40 was awesome. The cliches of getting better with age feel very true for me. I met my beloved at 37 and became a stepmum and homeowner very quickly after that. We married when I was 38 and 40 was a time for appreciating how far I’d come. ...
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