This Old House
So, we moved. We bought us a ‘doer upper’. A Victorian doer upper to be precise. We moved here two years ago, with the romantic fantasy of revitalising our tired […]
Category Archives: feelings
The Song You Snogged Your Hand To… (“Life’s a Journey” series, Week 7).
Last week we celebrated some of your first memories of Movies. This week we are turning our attentions to music. Specifically, the music of your youth which moved you. We are talking […]
Life’s a Journey. Week 5: Teenage Crushes
Look, if I’m going to be totally honest with you about this, then there were more than three. But in case anyone I actually knew in 1978 is tuning in […]
My baby’s eyes
All throughout my childhood I can remember people telling me that I had pretty eyes. These days it is hard to find them beneath the crinkles, and I have noticed […]
Making with Mother
Yesterday my 12 year old brought home one of those delightful surprises that so often come from school. Home made sausage rolls. It got me thinking about the amount of […]
Why you simply MUST SaveEveryStep
My name is Helen and my mum died 5 years ago. So why haven’t I changed my phone to read ‘dad’ instead of ‘mum’ against their number? I cannot bring […]
Summer, a ball and a bat. Perenially sweet nostalgia.
Mum, 1950, aged 15. Back row, 3rd from right. Last week I took my eldest son to his first ever Rounders match. For those of you watching in Black and […]
Memories of ElastiGirl skin
Oh Crap, I appear to be getting old. I no longer understand Tweet messages. Sometimes. Quite often. A lot. It’s not that I hadn’t noticed, but to be quite honest […]
The sweet nostalgia of childhood family holidays
Now, here’s the problem. When you live in THE most land-locked city in Britain, i.e. Birmingham, you can look at holidaying in two ways. 1. We can go ANYWHERE, since […]
Joe is finally a hero
Meet Uncle Joe. I never did, by the way. He died many many years before I was born. I recall his photograph sitting on my Nan’s sideboard. It was, in […]
I love being a mummy
I have to confess that I took my mum for granted. Don’t we all? And then she went and died. Would that we could turn back the clock. If we […]
A weekend of lurv
It started with the romantic setting of Ripon Cathedral. A Wedding Fair in this historic and truly beautiful, impressive building. Now, what could be more romantic than a Wedding Fair […]
Birthday bedlam
We are clearly bad planners. It seems that everyone in my family is determined to have their birthday within a nod and a wink of Christmas. There is a small […]
To party or not to party?
It’s funny looking back – my first son celebrated each and every birthday in style. We have certainly adopted a range of alter-egos over the years! Mostly related to super-heroism […]
Getting some press!
Call me naive, but I had NO idea how difficult it was being a very small voice in a very large media tunnel. I have realised that no one really […]
