I have this fantasy life that I sometimes lead and in it I’m pretty well sorted and have my stuff together. You know, when my pantry looks like it belongs on Pinterest, my home is permanently styled for a Real Living photo shoot and I’m dressed in stylish clothes minus mashed banana in my hair. In…
Thermie dreaming
Reality television and I aren’t really a match. I find it odd that people went nuts over Gogglebox yet Offspring is no more. I know it’s subjective and that for every person who sobbed great, fat wet tears when Patrick died (that would be me and it was season four for those living under a…
Love. Thy. #Selfie.
So I’m calling it! Narcissism is at an all time high and you know things aren’t quite right when the Fin Review has a pic of Kim Kardashian to accompany a story. I’m no fan of Kim but then I’m probably not her target market either. She’s also on this month’s front cover of Vogue. …
Life lessons from a couple of owls
We braved our first children’s concert over the weekend and I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t have high (if any) expectations on how Charlie would cope. The idea of him sitting in a concert hall without wanting to go nuts up and down the aisles was not something I was overly confident about. Sprinkle…
Who cares where the green sheep is?
1st of January and so it’s Happy New Year all round. Just like that 2014 is over and out and another year begins. A year that will start out with much hope and happiness and god willing end on December 31st in the same way. We celebrated with some close friends and since Charlie had…
It’s a mad, mad world
Monday morning was a typical day for me. After attempting to wrestle food into Charlie we headed to the park. The park isn’t exactly my idea of the most pleasant way to spend my time but for Charlie it is great – fresh air, climbing and sliding (he loves) and swinging about (he mostly tolerates) he…