Would you like a copy of Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood? Read on to find out more.

I’ve already blogged about my admiration for Retro Wife and her £40 son’s Saturday Night at the Movies-themed birthday party. Take a look – the popcorn cupcakes are fabulous, as are the film reel invitations. Anyway, it’s full on birthday party season at nursery and school. Is it just me, or are there more birthdays [...]

Who’s the Mummy wrote a sensible post entitled Communities, Cliques and a New Meme. It’s about the blogging community, whether it’s friendly or not, and why people actually blog. In my case, the reasons were fairly transparent. To provide another platform for angels & urchins magazine, and for the chance to wibble about subjects dear [...]

Call it fate or simple coincidence, but it’s a rare week when private thoughts don’t collide with a similar topic in the real world. My bedtime reading is currently Sheila Hancock’s The Two of Us, a biography and autobiography that entertainingly skips the reader from theatrical anecdotes involving Tom Courteney and ‘Dickie’ Attenborough, to heartwrenching [...]

Englishmum and blogging friends didn’t just watch the news and feel despairing, they set up a Bloggers for Haiti donation page, and have already raised well over £2,000 for Shelterbox.

The lovely Brit in Bosnia has tagged me in a Stories and Songs meme. I haven’t been tagged since a pre-snow world, running around in the park playing Stuck in the Mud. And very muddy it was too, given how much rain our part of London received before the fluttery flakes finally arrived. And I’ve [...]

 
I’m either ‘ten or a hundred’ (thank you, my children, and I suppose the truth is somewhere in between), my birthday started at 6am with a bed jumping session, and my main present is a bar of chocolate. And guess what, I couldn’t be happier. Another year older, and I had to laugh at the [...]