Aberystwyth

I’m just talking to a friend of mine in Aberystwyth on MSN. I’m going up to Aber at the weekend (without family, for a change!), primarily to visit Aber uni’s Relay For Life, but I’ll also be able to visit my MSN Aber friend, and hopefully a school friend of mine who has recently moved [...]

Springtime

I think I may be becoming obsessed by the weather. I’ve blogged about it a few times, but trust me, the weather matters when you have to do three school runs in a day! Today has been lovely – I even left my coat at home when I picked up my youngest before lunch! I’m [...]

Lists

What is it about lists, and more specifically about crossing things off lists, which is so very satisfying? As I have mentioned before on this blog, I have a lot to do in my house to prepare it for sale next year, and last year I was really getting nowhere. This year I really feel [...]

Search Terms

I’m always interested to look at the statistics generated by this blog, to see what it is that people look at when they come to this site. Overwhelmingly, it seems that people find my site after searching for information about cakes, and birthday cakes in particular. Another popular search which ends with people coming here [...]

I wish I could work computers better!

I’m struggling. I’m helping to run an event for Cancer Research UK called Relay For Life and we’re trying to set up a website. I set up a blog for it, but we decided that it would be better if we bought a domain name and hosted the blog there. That way we could also [...]

Lunar Eclipse

I’ve just been on Facebook and have found out through it that there is a total lunar eclipse this coming Wednesday night. I’ve never seen one before, so I’ll definitely be trying to remember to wake up for this one! It’s not too late at night if you live on America’s east coast, but for [...]

I can feel Spring coming…

We went for a walk around Roath Park Lake this afternoon as the weather has been so lovely and bright and sunny. The daffodils are starting to come out and the trees are beginning to show signs of leaves in bud, so it was a lovely time to visit the park. If you could ignore [...]

Cardiff Bay

Friday was the last day of the half term holiday, and so my parents and I took my children to Cardiff Bay on a “bendy-bus” for the afternoon. We had been a bit worried that the sky was looking a little threatening, but by the time we had finished lunch it had cleared up beautifully [...]

Moving house

I’ve not moved house for seven years. When I last moved I (only just) didn’t have any children to worry about, no toys etc to pack, no little people untidying everything five minutes before a viewing with potential buyers. In fact we didn’t have to worry about viewings as we were renting our last flat [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

I had a lovely morning. I was presented with a card, a large bunch of pink and cream roses and a two-course breakfast in bed! I had the obligatory cup of tea to wake me up, then a croissant with red grapes and a glass of red fruit smoothie. This was followed by scrambled eggs [...]