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• Hampered by Too Much Choice for Last-minute Pressies?

  

  Then choose a hamper... See what I did there with the title? This post is for you if you are still trying to gird your loins sufficiently to face the fray on th... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Junior Bake off - My Boy Says Shoo to the Pastry Bicycle

  

  Boy One with James Morton There was much excitement this Sunday. There was a celebrity in our midst. You could tell something was happening by the number of... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Are You Ready for Christmas? Money Saving Tips

  

  Santa cuts back on reindeer Don't you just hate that question? It's like "have you been on holiday yet?" or "is it your day off?" from the hairdresser. A... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Royal Prank - Horrible Story but No One Committed Murder

  

  No one dialed for murder And not even nearly... The news that the nurse who was taken in by prank calling Australian DJ's may have committed suicide is truely... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bon Voyage to Sir Ranulph Fiennes as He Starts His Coldest Journey

  

  Sir Ranulph Fiennes Mad as a box of frogs. Bonkers and batty. It's easy to find words to describe the 68-year-old man who is on his way to Antarctica to embark... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 OUTDOORS, TREK

• Coming off Citalopram - Getting a Buzz

  

  A little calm on a sunny day It has now been a little over three months since I started the process of coming off citalopram. I think that now I can say I have... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Strange Encounter in the Mist...

  

  Anyone there? Quackers Ugly ducklings... Mist melts off Yesterday morning, my Super Sister and I had one of our all-too-rare walking dates. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hanging out and Learning About Baking

  

  Hot new baking tips I gathered this week: If you want strongly coloured icing, spend money on the best colours you can find. To make an iced cake easier.... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• How to Make Sure You Get a Good Present This Year

  

  Is your other half any good at getting you presents? If yours always chooses the perfect thing without you having to drop hints so big you're likely to trip ove... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Businesses I Can't Be Arsed to Set up

  

  Blooming good ideas Some people are starters and others finishers when it comes to enterprise. (Probably many other things too.) I'm in the prawn cocktail... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Top 3 Christmas Films For Kids

  

  Don't look down: The Snowman This is a commercial post, after all Christmas is coming. Christmas films provide the ideal entertainment over the festive period. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 FAMILY, MOVIES, PARENTING

• Google + Hangouts: Much Easier Than They Look.

  

  Where to start a hangout A cunning disguise The new kid on the block, Google +, has actually been around a while. Long enough to know better anyway. Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Man, It's Hard to Be a (single) Woman...

  

  Opportunity should know better Many men are sexual opportunists. Oh, that's a bit of a statement, isn't it? I'll bet you or your man aren't. Nope, not us either. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 DATING, LOVE & SEX

• Trouble on the Doorstep: What Would You Do?

  

  Hard to see the wood for the trees on the doorstep I've never seen a chapter in a parenting book called: How to handle an irate parent on your doorstep. Not one. Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• You Know You're the Parent of a Three Year Old When...

  

  Buzz and Woody When someone, apropos of nothing, asks: "You know that cowboy?" And, of course, you do. It's Woody from Toy Story, chum of Buzz Lightyear. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Keep Your Kids Safe Online with Hollyoaks

  

  Do you watch Hollyoaks? Nope, me neither.However I do have online age children and they are dealing with issues of cyberbullying. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Most Unusual Career: Dead People and Throbbing Pasions, Violet Fenn's Story

  

  Earlier this year I met the very lovely - and utterly compelling - Violet Fenn. It's fair to say she's one of my top internet crushes. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• He Blogs, She Blogs - Our Lives Online.

  

  The Panther of News has been a blogger for about six weeks now so you'd have thought things might have settled down a bit for him. You know when you first blog... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pudsey in a Cake Tin - Whitbread

  

  Children in Need again and this time Boy One decided he'd turn his culinary skills to charitable use this year. Months ago he bought a Pudsey cake mould from... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bouffadou: Fired up by the Perfect Present

  

  Note to mum, please don't point this post out to you-know-who as he's getting it for Christmas. You know when you see the very thing - the gift that you know... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION