Getting closer… A Slimming World update

Weighed in at group today and I lost half a pound, which means I'm now just 4.5lbs away from my target and have lost 3 st 9.5lbs by following the Slimming World plan. To be this close to target is mind boggling... and actually, it's starting to get a bit scary. It's easy when you've …

Twin Lakes: our review (belated!)

School holidays in this house means a trip to a theme park! We are really lucky to live in the Midlands because there’s so many to choose from. This holiday, we chose Twin Lakes near Melton Mowbray. It takes us a leisurely 40 minute drive through beautiful Leicestershire countryside to get to there and when …

Tough times

Things at home - and by that I mean family life in general, both my immediate unit of four and my wider family - have been quite tough recently. Obviously, as I've blogged about before, Mr J is going to be made redundant this year (probably the summer but still no definite timings as yet) …

Mountsorrel Railway – our review

We've been hearing great things about Mountsorrel Railway and the Granite Cafe so Mr J and I decided to try it for ourselves this morning. The early morning sunshine we had for the school run had sadly disappeared by the time we made the short trip to Mountsorrel but it wasn't too cold for the …

It’s biggest’s birthday weekend!

Somehow our darling Biggest is going to be five on Sunday. I have no idea how this happened. It seems just moments ago that she was conceived (in Hamburg FYI), we were seeing her on the ultrasound screen, she was causing me sickness, she was born, she was teething, she was keeping us awake (oh, …

Let’s talk about sex, baby

I was very interested to hear the government is bringing in sex education for primary school kids. At first, I thought "OMG, I have a four year old, I don't want her to know about that just yet, thank you very much!" (Reading more about it, though, it's obviously not going to be full on sex …

Never forgotten

Short post tonight. On this day three years ago, I started to miscarry our much wanted baby. The pain and heartache may not be as raw as it was on that rainy, windy day but it is still sore when I think (as I often do) about those dark, desperately sorrowful hours when I knew …

Mum Truth #2 : World Bloody Book Day

Yay, your baby has started school! So grown up now, look at them in their cute little school uniform, holding their book bag and gabbling on about phonics and numeracy. And for you, wow, here come the invitations to parents evenings, harvest festivals, Christmas plays, sports days. Such proud moments. Even the aforementioned Nit Note is actually …

Lestah shocker!

I'm from Derby, I'm a Derby County fan and I will always be so. However, I've lived in Leicester since 2009 and for the last few years, I've become actually quite proud to say this is my home. That pride has come from all the amazing things that have been happening here, as well as the …