Have you missed me? 😇It's been over a month since I last posted which is probably the longest I've been without sharing anything on here but I've really missed it and now that I'm back, I'm here to stay!Let me explain where I've been...It's nothing too exciting but I managed to catch that ridiculous cold and flu bug that so many of you have had. The bug itself wasn't too bad and most symptoms were gone in about four days as you'd expect but the cough that came with it was ridiculous and dragged on and on. It had me coughing to the point of being sick at its best stage … [Read more...]

Do you ever get working parents guilt during the school holidays?  Today's post is all about how you can survive the Summer Holidays as a working parent!I first published this post about three years ago but after seeing a couple of posts on Social Media this week about the Mum guilt some people are feeling I thought I'd share it again. My two are 19 and 17 now so whilst I do absolutely understand the Mum guilt and also the feeling of counting down the days until they're back at school at times, I encourage you to make the most of every minute as you'll miss these days in a couple … [Read more...]

Today I'm going to give you some ideas on how to track your monthly expenses which is something we all should (but often don't) do in one way or another.I've been blogging for a long time now (I'm a blogging pensioner pretty much) and I must have said how important it is to track your monthly expenses at least once a month because how can you know where you need to cut back and where you can afford to spend a little more if you don't know where you're at right now!  It's also the only foolproof way to know exactly where your money is going every month so when you get to the end of … [Read more...]

Prices seem to be rising daily at the moment so I thought I'd write a quick post about the ways that I save money at the supermarket because, let's face it, every penny counts right now so if I can help you save a little bit when you're doing your weekly shop then we're winning!1) Airtime Rewards This is one I've mentioned loads over the last couple of months since I first discovered this one but Airtime Rewards is amazing! It's a completely free app that you download onto your phone, you connect your bank cards which is as simple as just scanning your card or typing in the details – no … [Read more...]

I've started this post about twenty times already this morning and this time, no matter what words end up on my screen, I'm not going to delete them. Maybe. 😂So I know that I've been the worst blogger in the world these last couple of years and I understand that there'll be very few people still here reading my posts but for those of you who are still here, I just wanted to update you very quickly on where I'm at and what my plans are going forward. I'm not going to go into much detail as I don't think this is the place to do that but the end result is that I'm now … [Read more...]

In the spirit of being sustainable and reusing as much as you possibly can around the house, I thought you might like to see a few ideas on how to reuse glass jam jars.I actually started this post (if taking two photographs counts as starting a post) a good few months ago now and then forgot all about the idea until this week when I saw a post on Facebook about how the owners of the company who make my favourite brand of jam, Bonne Maman, actually hid a family in Paris during World War 2 as part of the Nazi resistance effort. The story was really heartwarming but potentially (as with … [Read more...]