Our Garden

The view from my window

(more…)

As a mum of twins, I like to participate in the Twin Tuesday meme on the Twin Happy blog. This week’s TwinTuesday QOTW is:

(more…)

(more…)

What’s Easter without an egg hunt?

My five year old twins look forward to their annual Easter Egg Hunt. Hubby and I like to hide a mixture of decorated hard-boiled eggs, chocolate eggs and other Easter novelties around our back garden. However, living in Scotland, we have once had to resort to Plan B and hide the eggs around the house instead, because it was a wet and windy Easter Sunday.

(more…)

Another week, another Mama Guilt Monday, courtesy of Cop Mama. See the MckLinky at the bottom of this post to link up.

(more…)

What things that made you say Oh My! This week... good, bad, sad, fun , exciting, strange or whatever ....

(more...)

I’ve just read an article that initially made me laugh, but then made me stop and consider the implications of my choice of words and phrases in my blog post content and, in particular, my choice of permalink titles.  The article highlighted the problem of trigger happy spam filters blocking harmless websites and emails because of certain words or syllables being perceived, out of context, as obscenities.

“After 90 years, one of Canada’s oldest magazines, The Beaver, is changing its name.

(more…)

• It's #twintuesday http://www.mammakerr.com/2010/03/twin-tuesday-qotw-and-twin-news/ #

(more…)

(more…)

(more…)

(more…)

(more…)

“Giving presents to teachers is becoming increasingly commercialised and competitive, a teachers’ union warns.

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) says pupils and parents should not feel pressurised into buying end-of-term gifts for their teachers.”
(Source: BBC 26/03/10)

(more…)

It’s Thankful Thursday!

(more…)

This blog carnival is truly as easy as it sounds…

(more…)

I just came across this great blog called Work Wife Mom Life today, and I spotted that the author hosts a meme which is most definitely right up my street – Working Mommy Wednesday.

(more…)

(more…)

It’s Twin Tuesday! 

I like to participate in Twin Happy Jen’s meme every week, though I haven’t actually done this for a couple of weeks.

(more…)

This is my fourth week taking part in the fun meme at Supah Mommy called Post-It Note Tuesday.

(more…)

Today is World Water Day.  As a member of Bloggers Unite, I’d like to take this opportunity to ask you to stop and consider how much water you use on an average day.

Here’s an approximation of how much water I’ve used today: (more…)