by Penny | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
I, like many others, cease to function if I am not connected to the internet. I hate this as I am the first to rant at people that I miss the good old days when, if you agreed to meet a friend, you made the effort to be there and on time and that life should be held...
by Helen Holloway | Oct 28, 2013 | LUNCHBREAK, THOUGHTS
My youth was spent sprinting across fields, building dens, riding my bike dizzyingly fast down country lanes and swimming in the River Avon. We didn’t need to join clubs; we were constantly exhausted and ravenous. Now though, my family week is peppered with...
by jordanna | Jul 18, 2013 | DO IT
Oh the delights of the 7, almost 8, long weeks of the glorious summer holidays are almost upon us…maybe, perhaps, for the last time if Mr Gove gets his way and the summer holiday as we have always known it is scrapped! Now, I bet readers with school age children...
by Penny | May 28, 2013 | MAKE IT
The moment that your friends ask you for a favour is sometimes the moment your heart sinks… but looking after two teenagers for the weekend meant that I had the excuse to try out an idea I had seen for some fun artwork that fits somewhere between crafting and...
by Louise Bowditch | Apr 11, 2013 | LUNCHBREAK, THOUGHTS
I’d like to introduce you to my good friend Faith Eckersall. Faith is an award winning journalist and talented writer and we have known each other for well over 10 years. During that time our sons have become the best of friends. As youngsters they were...