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Christingle
Remembering the Christingle services of my childhood. This one carries a nostalgia warning.
Christmas Comes To Fizzy
It’s Fizzmas!!! Brace yourself for the fizziest season for all.
Married Life
My life lessons from being married. Going deep on a Sunday, yo.
John Lewis Christmas Ad
For those of you with tinsel in your heart and fairy lights behind the eyes, we get to see the John Lewis Christmas ad tomorrow!!! Apparently, it's a goody. Not sure you can beat dogs on trampolines or the little boy who couldn't wait to give out his presents...
Bonfire Night
When I was a child celebrating Bonfire Night at home was a thing. A few friends round, a box of fireworks from the newsagent, torches galore, gloves and a bucket of water for the sparklers. As health and safety has got better people are more likely to go...
It’s Fizzyween!
Fizzyween is upon us! The monkeys asked for their own holiday so they've got it. At their request, there is a gold twig tree covered in pink spiders, there will be sausage rolls, chilli and spider cake. I'll be drowning sweets in jelly. They can bob for...
Here Comes Fizzyween!
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 years and my...
Don’t Tell Anyone…
...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. I've been planning our...
Birthday Cake
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...
Three years ago…
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
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. Celebrating my...
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