This is a BIG shopping week, the nativity/wrapping/party/meet-ups are truly underway – as well, of course as the looming C-Day. It would be weird if there WASN’T a meltdown somewhere along the way, so; #1: Ninja-mum Peacemaking Tool: The Argument Spoon. If the children/teenagers/auntie Marge at each others’ throats OR agreement can’t be reached about a… Read More >
Archives for January 2016
Getting your Nan Hammered
Booze Like a Boss Whilst the family weekly shopping trolley might have a cheeky bottle of wine or two lurking under the loo roll throughout the year.. …we Brits apparently turn into raving alcoholics (if our Christmas shopping trolleys are to be believed) Bailey’s, Southern Comfort, Champagne, Gin, Malibu (please don’t, so much worse on… Read More >
Healthier Mince Pies
What you need: · 100g cranberries · 100g of sultanas · 100g of raisins · 1 apple · 1 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon · 1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg · 1/2 tsp ground ginger · 2 oranges · tsp of vanilla bean paste/extract (yes, you need this ^^^ it’s the only weird ingredient!)… Read More >
Early Xmas Present for you
Can I start by saying I have literally bought ZERO Christmas presents yet (Claire’s are all wrapped…) I will probably do it online in the next couple of days. Nor have I put my tree up. Probably at the weekend. It will all get done, it won’t be a rush – so if you are panicking…… Read More >
Five minute workout…
So Day 3 Through our Christmas Countdown Another little workout. Just 4 minutes this time. Have you kept up? If you ever do The Project, or speak to someone that has, you will know, that keeping up it the key. We are leaving the first week’s resources up until Sunday and after that they are… Read More >
Mind Tricks
Through our Christmas Countdown Another little workout. Just 4 minutes this time. Have you kept up? If you ever do The Project, or speak to someone that has, you will know, that keeping up it the key. We are leaving the first week’s resources up until Sunday and after that they are gone. So if… Read More >
Xmas Superwoman – Powernap
All set for Xmas? (One sentence guaranteed to send you up the wall….) Right then. This Christmas lark Let’s Take this bit by bit… The pair of us can sometimes get a bit Bah Humbug.. but you ladies have got us feeling actually a bit festivey! On FB and in your emails and things The… Read More >
Xmas Countdown
I’m sorry. I know we shouldn’t talk about the ‘C’ word until December. (4 days to go) But we’ve prepared a little FREE ‘Christmas Proof Yourself’ challenge to keep you sane leading up to the big day. AND to stop you putting on the half a stone ot so that people (on average) do over the… Read More >
Gym? Seemed like a good idea at the time.
The Gym I don’t mind the gym, I won’t lie. I mean I’m not a weirdo I don’t LOVE it. But I know what I’m doing so it’s not an unpleasant experience for me. The way we know it is for most people. Even given that I quite like it and I know where to go… Read More >
Diets. Meh.
There are lots of ‘goroos’ Who just repost and recycle work that other people have done. And we don’t like doing that (doesn’t seem right and it’s lazy) But we saw a video this week that make us stand on our chairs salute and shout “allelujah”. The main lie that we have to compete against… Read More >
Gorgeous Granola
Let’s face it Granola is delicious. But it isn’t cheap. And lots of brands are cheekily laced with LOTS of sugar. (if you are trying to lose the love handles that’s not going to help at all) Making your own is SO easy, a fraction of the cost and you know what’s in it. Which… Read More >
Cults. We are definitely not one of those.
This was going to be 2 posts. But I realised they were both about the same thing We all want a GURU. There was a time… There were fitness people. And life coach people And there were new age, hippy woo-woo people And there were religious people And spiritual people And then there was you…. Read More >
Nurses
I feel guilty sometimes. My daughter is a nurse. So we all know that nurses work hard, and are unsung heroes and all of that. Everyone can remember a time that a nurse showed a special kindness. Or went the extra mile. Or dealt with something that we just couldn’t possibly do in an breathtaking… Read More >
#1stWorldProblems
“Problems from living in a wealthy, industrialized nation that third Worlders would probably roll their eyes at” We got a post from a lady the other day: “I haven’t time to cook from scratch” We get that. We really do. But we don’t agree. To be really fair – this is a busy lady. Lots going… Read More >
Cavewoman Cathy
Someone posted an article yesterday to our FB group about the human’s tendency to be ‘lazy’. Same day, another person posted a concern about about her teenager, who was suffering from anxiety.. and it got us thinking…. Both issues are about the way that we are hard-wired (rather than learned behaviour) Lazy and anxious don’t… Read More >
How Nerdy Guys Get Hot Girls
So in the Sex Life of a Goldfish…it goes like this: Girl goldfish choose their boy goldfish because they are the brightest coloured. This is because they know that they are the strongest and healthiest, so their baby goldfish will be too. BUT If there are two boy goldfish, pretty similar in colour, an interesting… Read More >
5 Things
I’ve just been to the bank. A lovely old man there started up a conversation with me said I looked like his granddaughter, and showed me the pictures. Actually he was being rather generous…But I could see what he meant. He said: “she’s just as fun with her daughter as I’ve just watched you being… Read More >
Trust No-One
They are all out to get you. So I had a couple of conversations. Could’ve with messed with my mojo…. Someone said to a group of women: “you want to watch HER (about someone not there) …..she’s a backstabber” Another said: (about another woman)” oh I bet you were furious about what that ****** posted…I reckon it was about you!” SIGH… Read More >
I’m in a Sexual Relationship with Gary Lineker
Dilated Pupils Mouth Watering Heart Racing I. Just. Want. It.. NOW This is how Ellie described to me what happened when her husband came back from the Co-Op Not JUST with the bin bags he went for but with a family size bag of Walkers crisps before he left for Monday night football practice. She hadn’t planned to eat that kind of… Read More >
Oh Katie Hopkins
You know when something or something is a new genre that you haven’t even got the right word for? If you described the kinds of things Hopkins publicly shouts (was going to say spews but that’s a bit unladylike) to someone 20 years ago…. ..they’d say – NAH! No-one would put up with that. There… Read More >