The very beautiful tones of Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli float through my busy mind today……………………………. For I have made a decision.   I’ve decided it’s time to say goodbye……….. To the good ship Slimming World. I’ve had enough. I’m tired and I’ve...

Arrrrrr, good old Barbara………………………….   My parade, was last Sunday. I completed my very first marathon. Not just any old marathon either. The London Marathon!! Yes, me!! Five feet six, sixteen pounds too heavy, thirty five year old, mum of two, ME!! After months of training, hours on the road, blisters,...

……. Alfieeeeeeeeeeeee (Cilla Black) This is the current tune dropping through my empty head like a stone down a well this evening.   It branches really from something my youngest asked me this week ‘Mummy, why is it called Good Friday?’ To which I answered ‘Don’t really know mate.’ ‘Is it because you get to do...

…….. I’m building up my arse to the size of a cow!! (The Wonder Stuff – The Size Of A Cow, in case you’re wondering) These are the lyrics that currently swim around my teeny tiny brain. I’ve changed them, obviously, the word arse should be problems. But hey, it’s my song. I’m sulking and feeling deprived. It’s my...

Wowser, where to start.   We’ve all had a really lovely half term break which started with staying at a beautiful barn conversion called Brazenhall to celebrate our friends fortieth birthday. With twelve of us and two dogs for the whole weekend and twenty odd of us Saturday night for dinner, the barn held us all very comfortably and was a beautiful place...

That fantastically romantic time of year when couples get to celebrate that four letter word that keeps them together………… Fear. Don’t worry if no one loves you on Valentines day, they probably don’t love you the rest of the year either. Neither of these little quips I can claim as my own, they just make me chuckle. I have made one...

Well, so far I have managed to put my thumb through two really pretty pairs of new tights – which I’m quite cross about, bake the most fantastic chocolate cake for Kman’s birthday tea with his pals on, make a batch of wholemeal muffins – which I won’t be able to eat, complete Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursdays training runs and make a...