In these days of indoor plumbing, you’re probably surprised to learn that there are times when I think a chamber pot would be darn handy. As a tiny tot, my nickname was “Jolly Juicy Janet”. I can only assume I was a happy child (and am still a happy person); while the “juicy” referred to […]

What do you do when it’s gone 9pm on a Sunday night, and you just KNOW that if you don’t have a fresh blog post published in the morning, your adoring public kidults will be cross?! You write a post about WHY you haven’t managed to get a blog post done, that’s what! I bet […]

When we went for our first swim of the season recently, I very nearly had a major wardrobe malfunction … luckily the husbear noticed in time! I’d put on my tankini and was about to walk out the door when the husbear gasped: “I think you’d better take a look at the back of your […]

My biggest fans here on the blog are my own two kids – Mr 27 and Miss 24. If I am ever late with a post (or heaven forbid, miss one altogether, which does occasionally happen because you know, life), I get scolded in a barrage of text messages. You can also be assured that […]