Do you want to know what my perfect morning would be?It would be going downstairs on a morning when everyone else is still in bed, picking up a good book and having the chance to read it in peace while drinking my cup of tea and eating a bacon sandwich.That sounds like absolute bliss to me and luckily for me with my lazy lot, it happens more often than it used to these days as 'me time' seems to get easier as they get older.And to make my perfect morning even more perfect, I've just discovered Danepak's Rapid Rashers which are cooked in the microwave in just 90 seconds so I can now … [Read more...]

Like a lot of you, I'm rarely more than a few feet from my trusty little phone, yet I rarely use it for making phone calls! I'd be lost without it though as I use it to keep my life organised and to make sure I never forget things - both blogging wise and in my home life!It used to be that the only thing I used my phone for was for taking photos and texting people but these days it's so much more and I thought I'd share a few of the ways I use my phone daily to keep me on track....Check your emails This is a bit of an obvious one but I regularly check my emails throughout the day and … [Read more...]

I'm not sure how I feel about these subscription boxes that are popping up all over the place. You know the ones I mean, don't you? The ones where you pay a monthly charge and get a box filled with random products delivered to your door each month.On the face of it they're excellent value because the products you get are generally worth a fair amount more than you pay for the box itself but in reality, if they're products that you wouldn't have bought anyway then that's not good value at all.It wouldn't be very frugal of me not to point out that paying £10 for a box of goodies worth … [Read more...]

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud of the relationship I have with my daughter.At almost 14, she still enjoys spending time with me (although I'm not always her first choice these days) and will still happily sit and fill me on what's going on in her life.  She's very honest with me and I like to think that she knows that she can ask me anything (as she frequently does).I love the person she's growing up to be and I am making the most of every minute we have together trying to teach her the important things that I think she needs to know in order to be the person I know she can … [Read more...]

As you probably already know, I started Slimming World back in January and so far I've lost a stone which I know is great because a stone is a stone but it's less than I wanted to have lost by this point and during March I found myself feeling with less determination that I'd started with back in January.I felt like I was using any excuse not to stick to my diet and although I didn't put any weight back on, I was practically the same weight at the end of March than I was at the start of the month which is so frustrating!The the clocks went forward and the nights got lighter and I … [Read more...]

This time of year is the perfect time to be thinking about saving money on your heating bills next Winter!That sounds odd I know but if you're anything like us, you're using your heating less and less now that Spring has arrived and I'm sure that in a couple of weeks we'll barely have it on again until the cold weather kicks in again later in the year.If you identify areas where you can cut costs now then you've got plenty of time to get them all done before the cold weather does start because believe me, you'll be a lot less inclined to take action in the cold dark Winter months than … [Read more...]