

Christmas Blog Party
Meh, arrrgh, Christmas....what? It's December already? How in the hell of motherly Jesus did that happen? I swear I was just moaning about the summer holidays? It's been a busy old time recently. We launched Second Helpings and I did my first blog tour. Thank you to everyone who hosted me during this time, for all the likes and shares and RTs and follows. Writing sure feels like quite the solitary endeavour sometimes but recently, I've been thrown in the path of some tru


Half Baked
So birthday season is over in my house. What? ‘Tis a whole season of birthdays? Why, yes…let me explain. Because I met the King of the North on the 8th May. The magic 8th May. It’s when the stars, planets and the cosmos align and obviously when the magic happens, quite literally, for it has become the date all four of my babies were conceived. Boom. It wasn’t planned. The first time we thought it was cute, then it became a freaky coincidence. Now Ned’s not allowed a


#4: Mum vs Food
So for those of you who eat right, eat well, Instagram your dinners out and who make their own pasta…look away now. Because this blog is about food and well, my lack of love for it. That’s not to say I’m ungrateful…I know it’s a resource that I am lucky to have, I really do. But, in my eyes, this last decade has seen the (rather unfortunate) rise of the foodie. A rise that I’m not too sure how to handle. Because I am from a family full of foodies. Geez, these kids like t