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Driving with Dead People – A Summer Reading Recommendation   In need of a good summer reading recommendation? Summer holidays + a great book = BLISS, ooooooh yeah! You know that reading is a super-awesome pastime, right? Well lazing on holidays and enjoying a book that you’ve held onto – patiently waiting ages to read [...]

2012 – almost over Red-Rover  So how did 2012 really shape up? Looking at a year in review is always interesting – it’s amazing how in hindsight you can see how things have actually slipped into place and I must say, 2012, on  the whole, you’ve been A-ok to me and mine. I’ll be linking [...]

How to talk about the news to your kids  Explaining the news to your children It seems that the world has been overrun with tragedies of late and for most parents, the natural instinct is to protect our children, and their innocence, from these events. Of course we want them to see only good in the world [...]

An easy office Christmas gift idea Office Christmas gift idea – easy-peasy! There are a few people that I work closely with during the year and each Christmas it’s nice to celebrate the year that’s been with a little gift. Nothing over the top, nothing super fancy but something that says “thanks for the year [...]

Wordless Wednesday - When I Grow Up … A Wordless Wednesday Princess “Please can I be a Princess? A Snow White Princess?” And the answer is of course! Thanks to a lovely little friend who has outgrown this costume, and this phase, Baby Girl can be a Snow White Princess wherever and whenever she wants. She [...]

Cheering for Summer Fruit Season Hooray, the fruits of summer are here Summer is a top season – it means the excitement of Christmas, the click of leather on willow during Test Cricket and of course longer, warmer days. Personally, and this is coming from someone always thinking about what next to put in the belly, [...]