Watching a short film about homelessness in America and how there are half a million people living on the streets and it got me thinking that I have have never experienced poverty or been homeless, and that makes me privileged? I have the “perfect” husband, wife 2.4 kids life it wasn’t handed to me though […]
I didn’t want to write a blog about a craving but I have to say if someone offered me a cold pint of lager today I would have drank it not sure why but today was a day I craved alcohol not to get drunk maybe but to quench my thirst and lager was what […]
Being a Mommy was one of the very first things we discussed when our long distance relationship was becoming serious and she was absolutely adamant that she was put on this earth to be a Mommy and she has proved that to be correct having the privilege to see just how great she has been […]
A day spent pottering in the sunshine is not a day wasted. With the sun out again and really warm I got out into the garden and sorted out my tools clearing the sheds and wood store so that we could see “the wood for the trees” so to speak mowed the lawn and dismantled […]
Just a quick update on sobriety I have just completed a third of a year without a drink and I have to say it is pretty easy now 99% of the time I literally don’t think about having a drink even at the usual pinch points of cooking food at teatime or Friday night etc. […]
Reagan’s first parent teacher meetings since starting High School was nothing to worry about because of how well Reagan seems to have adjusted to that huge transition from Primary school and all that is entails but there is always that concern that she may put a brave face on it for us and be struggling […]
Still not had my Dash-Cam fitted which is annoying considering I feel it was over indulgent and since Sunday we have had quotes to get the bathroom tiles fixed and the patio door fixed which combined will cost over a grand plus add on to that the cost of living soaring with energy prices doubling […]
This moment happens every year around the Equinox when the sun comes out and the frosty morning air is quickly warmed giving the impression that spring has sprung and summer is on its way. To Jamie though it means we can have all our meals on a blanket on the lawn because its summer again […]
I was looking at the piece of paper below today and remembering how I felt when I wrote it, and having read a comment on an older post from 2014 over the weekend it got me thinking about how I feel today? I still feel like the luckiest person alive and how wonderful life is […]
On Friday the weather was markedly better the sun came out and everything just seemed better even if nothing else had changed I just felt better, empowered even, like I wanted to do stuff? I tried to fix the door, I mowed the lawn, I prepared the bathroom wall behind the tiles that had fallen […]