ENGLISH MUM

In my incredibly important position as Disney Blu-ray Ambassador *cough*, I get certain perks.  A rather fab one recently was a nice parcel containing the specially released Toy Story… …and Toy Story 2, newly released in Disney Blu-ray The first thing I’ll say that, as always with BluRay, the quality is AMAZING.  We were constantly fascinated by the little details, like the weave on the...

The surreal and unpredictable world of blogging It is with some apprehension, I suspect, that English Mum has handed her blog over to me for the day while she guest posts on mine.  She has given me free reign over her corner of cyberspace and permission to write whatever I like.  Only in the rather surreal world of blogging would anyone invite a friend over despite the fact they have never actually met in...

Okay, so this is quite possibly the most fabulously, amazingly brilliant competition I’ve ever run. Think about a photo you really love: a treasured picture of the kids, maybe? A beautiful beach scene?  Or maybe it’s trees that float your boat?  A fabulous sunset?  Or maybe you’re a photographer and have created an amazing image?  Maybe there’s just one photo that always makes...

Planning… My 40th birthday – there’s a fabulous Disney surprise in store, and we’re also planning a glamorous cocktails and dinner extravaganza with my two gorgeous girls, Foxy and Tums and their lubly men.  Wehay! Coveting… the beautiful dresses on  A Change of A Dress – the most fabulous girly website ever. Surfing… over to John Lewis’ new and revamped fashion...

So I’m a bit bleurgh about blogging at the moment.  I have no inspiration. I’ve lost my mojo, as it were.  So I thought ‘ooh, I know, I need a little bit of reader interaction’.  And so I went in the bath (mango and lime bubbles, if you must know) and had a think.  And here’s the plan.  I’m setting you a challenge. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to...

The lovely Jennifer, Lifestyle Editor of the Times Online and writer of The TimesOnline’s fabulous blog AlphaMummy has challenged me to reveal a deep, dark memory from my past. Ooer. Of course, most of my earliest memories are food-related: baking with my Mum in our shiny, lime green melamine kitchen (it’s probably come back into fashion now!): pushing the buttons on the Kenwood Chef, butterfly...

So I finally got tagged in Tara Cain’s ‘favourite photo meme’.  I was beginning to feel  like Norma-no-mates as blogger after blogger got tagged (no, Tara, I’m not bitter…).  Finally, though, the fabulous, 51% Linda from Got Your Hands Full and the lovely Zoe over at Diary of a Surprise Mum took pity on me and  challenged me to publish my favourite photo… And actually,...

Bloody snow. I’m so over it. Go away and let me go out to the shops already. I’ve spent the whole day at home AGAIN. It’s driving me ballistic. I went out and cleared the path only to be told that I could sued if someone slipped on it. How silly – if you’re coming down my path you must be coming to see me, in which case it would be a bit counterproductive to sue me, wouldn’t...

It’s the last Sunday in Advent today.  And for those not ‘in the know’ (me, in other words), I turned to our wonderful friend and ‘YTPR‘, the Revd Craig, for a quick update.  Turns out, then, (bear with me here), that the four Sundays leading up to Chrimbo are called Advent Sundays.  The first Sunday of Advent actually marks the beginning of the church year, and each Sunday...

So here I am, then, in the library.  I feel like it’s so long since I’ve been online that I can hardly remember what to do.  How are we all?  Good, I hope?  We’re kind of settled into English Towers II, but there’s no internerd until 10th December, so rather than chew my fingers down to the knuckle in frustration, I thought I’d toddle off and avail of the services provided...