Several years ago, I pulled together a savoury snack list, after discovering Belle helping herself to handfuls of icing sugar for breakfast.
I’d tried to lie in and then kind of slept while I heard th...
Back at my desk and down to earth with a bump … except, when your bump is Bermuda, you just can’t really complain! And though our holiday was amazing, I’ve never been so happy to be home … the journey...
For a little while now, every other year, my amazing dad has sent us tickets and flown us over to join him for a holiday in Europe.
He’s not an extravagant man usually. It seems like the opposite righ...
Almost every parent I’ve ever met has been united by some common themes: total exhaustion, addiction to caffeine, wide-eyed bewilderment (how can something so small poop so much?).
Yet, even if we’re ...
I was at a meeting discussing the health crisis in Bermuda the other day and the drink options were: coffee, soda, fluorescent juice cocktail or water.
Obviously given the context, the done thing wou...
I always take the first week of the summer holidays off with the kids and, while it should mean lots of downtime, I’m still writing this from the kitchen at 11pm.
I have working-mum guilt. And so whi...
Well ... school’s out and the children practically made a bonfire out of their uniform in celebration.
We were barely out of the school gates before the shoes came off and the hair came down. I was s...
A quick note from the edge today as I’m writing this at home with a string of repairmen going in and out of the house.
The washer is on the blink, the bath taps are leaking and the air conditioning h...
I’m pretty sure I’m writing this from my deathbed.
I’ve already Googled meningitis, man-flu and the plague — fortunately, I don’t seem to have any of those but I do have something that has totally le...
Life is short. What that means in my book is there is definitely room for dessert and wine.
The problem is if we stretch the “life is short” philosophy too far, then we risk life getting infinitely s...
