Since I’ve been getting quite a few free samples lately, I’m going to try and write a review on the things I try and so I’ve made a start on updating the Reviews Page. First up, girly (make-up/skin care)stuff, so I wouldn’t bother clicking, gents

On Thursday night, my team were playing mum’s in the Carling Cup (2nd round) Mum and I would have loved to have gone to Selhurst Park to watch this, but sadly she was away on holiday and I had to go and fetch the girls from Chester ready for S’ birthday on Friday. So mum [...]

On Thursday I was up early and drove down to Chester to collect Nel and friend . As you may recall, both girls had felt ill when I took them down so I bought some travel sickness tablets and hoped they’d be OK on the way back. I arrived at about 11.30am, made myself a [...]

Nel got her GCSE results on Thursday, and was hoping for the 5 passes at C or above, including English and Maths so that she could get into 6th Form after her aborted college plans. As you may remember, she’s had an awful time at school, with bullying, lack of confidence, and difficulties with some [...]

Raji and Billy are both very hard of hearing and for someone with as acute hearing as me, it’s not always easy living with people who have their TV, music, and alarm clocks at full volume. For example, Raji’s alarm clock is so loud that despite his room being downstairs, with both his door and [...]

The last couple of weeks have been very work-orientated for me as I’ve been covering for my colleague who is on holiday. I made myself a promise not to get stressed, to just do my best and work through things one at a time, and not only has it helped keep me sane, but I’ve [...]

On Sunday I planned to catch up in the house – not just because I’d been out all day the day before, but also, I’d been working all week last week at the hospital whilst my colleague was on holiday. However, the girls had had a bad night according to mum, both were still not [...]

Saturday was a very long day – up at 5.30am everything ready for the day’s plans, namely, taking Nel and her friend S to Chester to stay with mum, a quick lunch, and then on to City’s first home game of the season. However, I knew from the previous trip that there were lots of [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Billy had asked what I was doing on this Sunday and when I replied that I had no plans, he suggested we spend the day together and go out somewhere for the day. I thought this was a lovely idea as there is so much of this area that I [...]

Having spent the morning being a domestic Goddess, I stopped to settle down in front of the PC to watch City’s first game of the season, courtesy of liveonlinefooty (£9 for 90 days membership – with more than one match each matchday!) I knew this was a tough opener, and the Blackburn players had already [...]