I don’t have a bucket list but if I did, right up at the top would have to be being a guest on BBC Radio Four stalwart, Desert Island Discs. How I would love to settle down in the studio with Kirsty Young to be ‘castaway’ with the music that defines my life. It’s been 75 years since Roy…… Continue reading What would you save from the waves?

Last night my four year old dropped the F-bomb. I had to ask him to repeat himself as I couldn’t quite believe what had just come out of his, until then, innocent mouth. I was complaining about the noise from a bicycle horn he had been given for Christmas – one of those old school Chitty…… Continue reading Out of the mouths of babes

In my last post I wrote about 2016 and how it had been quite a shitty year for me. I also wrote about how it had ended on a high with me feeling energised and positive about the future. There were lots of things that contributed towards this and as the year came to a close I…… Continue reading Get yourself some MamaSpace

Like me, you’re probably sick of hearing how dreadful 2016 was. An annus horribilis on a monumental scale. A gargantuan grim reaper who snatched from us our childhood heroes, our European Union and our BBC Bake Off and left us with a giant orange oompa loompa with an ego you can see from space. I too…… Continue reading Lessons for Life

What is it about snow that brings out the child in us? I went to bed last Wednesday night full of excitement, keeping fingers and toes tightly crossed that the few flakes of snow that had begun to fall would carry on in earnest through the night. I knew my prayers had been answered, when I…… Continue reading The Magic of Snow

  ‘Friends for a Season, Friends for a Reason, Friends for Life’ I was reminded of this phrase following a wonderfully unexpected visit a few weeks ago from my oldest friend. Our friendship was forged over pink wafers and hot Ribena back in 1980 at aged just three when we both started at ‘Mrs Duff’s,…… Continue reading Friends for Life

My three year old daughter is currently obsessed with all things ‘princess’. She pirouettes round the house from dawn to dusk in her Disney Princess dress and synthetic hair extension which she got from Grandpa for Christmas. Tonight as I was trying and failing to extract the dress from her so she could have a…… Continue reading Do you want to be a Princess?

  I managed to successfully dodge my youngest’s 5.45am wake-up this morning.  Still pretending to be asleep at almost 8am, the sound of the chaos from round the kitchen table (were they limbo dancing?!) was interrupted by that most beautiful and magical of winter countryside noises – the call of migrating geese. Like a child on…… Continue reading Fabulously Feral – a countryside childhood