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Category Archives: the public face
What I wore Wednesday – two maternity outfits for price of one!
I’m not actually going to tell you what I wore on Wednesday. Instead, I’m going to talk about last Thursday and Friday, when I went down to High Wycombe (over to High Wycombe?) for a blogger event. Because of the … Continue reading
Dark Parties by Sara Grant – review.
I do like teen fiction. But not stereotyped teen fiction. So I was a tiny bit nervous about this as it fits into the current vogue for dystopian fiction and I was afraid it might turn out to be a … Continue reading
Rubbish diet – Monday meeting.
As part of our involvement with the rubbish diet we’ve got a weekly weigh in – every good diet has to keep track of how it’s all going after all. So before I ran out of the house towards the … Continue reading
Never Coming Home by Evonne Wareham – review
I’ve read a wide variety of stuff already this year, and some of it has been slightly traumatic. Eg Life, Above All, read the book and watched the film for Movie Gazette. (That’s one of my new projects. I’m doing … Continue reading
Beautiful Malice – book review.
So I completely forgot to publish another Our Year in Books post last weekend (gah!) but I have been reading. In fact I’ve read four books so far this year, but some of them will be reviewed other places, I’ll … Continue reading
Recommending a book.
I read a lot of books. You’d think choosing just one to recommend would be easy, but no, it’s not. What if the other person doesn’t like it? What if they absolutely hate it? It would be so embarrassing. But … Continue reading
Bumpalicious maternity dress and Emma Jane tights – review.
I was very fortunate, just before Christmas to be contacted by a couple of ppl to review some lovely maternity wear. Bumpalicious do some fabulous dresses and I decided that for once, I wouldn’t be sensible and choose the dress … Continue reading
Can you imagine it?
Yesterday I posted about the spartacus report and the government welfare reform bill and what you can do about it. I tweeted lots, watched the post views triple, emailed my MP, signed and shared the epetition, was featured by Mumsnetbloggers, … Continue reading
I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more.
I read an article in the Guardian last night. It had chilling echoes for me of a previous situation where a government decided they didn’t like something and would legislate against it, regardless of the actual facts of the situation. … Continue reading
Christmas is nearly upon us: stocking fillers reviewed.
I’ve had some great review opportunities, and some odd ones through the blog this year. This surprised me slightly, but was not one I was averse to (one day I’ll blog a list of the things I’ve turned down, you’ll … Continue reading
Zumba fitness 2 for Wii – review and giveaway
You may remember me reviewing Zumba Fitness for Wii a while back, when I was working on being fit and svelte. These are not words that describe me now. Blimp describes me now, sadly, 6 months pregnant is not my … Continue reading
The whole early years/ school age thing and home education, with a book review.
Increasingly via twitter I’m getting contacted about home education. This is good. I’m glad that ppl have somewhere to reach out to. When I was considering it for Big, all those years ago, my online answers came courtesy of the … Continue reading
Have you drunk enough today?
This is a Sponsored Post, but with a difference. There are no brand links. I'm not going to talk about a product. Instead, it's a bit more like a public service announcement. Today I'm being sponsored to talk about hydration. … Continue reading
Gamers ahoy – Disney Universe review and Grease Dance XBox competition.
Rattling through a bit of a backlog of reviews and competitions this week, worth keeping checking in to see what else is coming up Today it’s Disney Universe – we were very lucky to be sent this to review on … Continue reading
Family Quest, Bananagrams and a competition…
Way back in spring this year I was thrilled to be invited to become a Lead Mummy blogger on Three‘s On the Go Mums campaign. I was given a phone and a mifi, went to London for the kickoff event, … Continue reading
The Fellowship of the Ring – Family Film Night
Grotty dull day here yesterday – it barely seemed to get light. I managed to get a bit more tidying done, which had the adverse side affect of clearing a path to the craft shelves, so I then spent lots … Continue reading
World Pneumonia Day – Clean cookstoves.
I saw a tweet yesterday from Christine over at Thinly Spread that reminded me of World Pneumonia Day today, so this afternoon I spent some time doing research. Many children die of pneumonia in the developing world – far too … Continue reading
Saturday is family film night – Back to the Future.
Or at least, tonight was our second family film night. I’m trying to make it a habit, that we spend one evening a week staring at the same screen together – I’d quite like it if we did board games … Continue reading
News, reviews, competitions and bits.
A few things to cover this week, though not as many odd news releases from PRs for some reason. I did get word yesterday of a new competition from Lloyds Home insurance with a top prize of £10000 – something … Continue reading


