At the end of last week I was delighted that Tesco Magazine published a review article I had written for them, all about a weekend away in the New Forest.

http://www.tescomagazine.com/living/holidays/oakdene-forest-park-review.html

Tellingly the article starts with these words:

"Travelling with a toddler isn't always the most relaxing experience....

Recently I replied to a request on Twitter by fellow blogger http://thismummyloves.com for guest blog posts on potty training.

We have been trying to potty train the boy on and off now for quite some time with limited success. The weekend I wrote this as my...

On Monday lunchtime, as soon as the news broke of Mrs Thatcher's death, I text my husband and I simply put...

"Ding Dong the Witch is Dead"

He knew exactly who and what I meant.

I don't intend for this to be offensive, it was after all a private conversation...

Happy New Year!

Is your house choc full of plastic? Or is it just me?

The tree is down, the wrapping has been recycled and Oscar has jumped in and out of every box so now we're just left with all the toys!

Don't get me wrong I love...

Since having the boy and working for myself, I'm at home in the daytime a whole lot more than I ever used to be, and I seem to be constantly called by someone calling himself "Alan".

I don't personally believe "Alan" is actually called "Alan". I don't know what his...

Since writing my original post on the Hillsborough tragedy

http://thoughtsfromrandomwoman.blogspot.com/2011/10/one-with-hillsborough.html

I have had the honour of chatting with several people from Liverpool on Twitter and my post has been read by them along with the official Liverpool FC Twitter account, the JFT96 account and two people who were there...

I've been concerned lately that I don't do enough with the boy. You know, activity wise.

When I was on maternity leave life was a whir of swimming lessons, Jo Jingles, NCT meetings and Baby Bounce. I had classes, clubs and community coming out of my ears.

After a while...

On Sunday hubby and I went to the Olympics!

Yes the Olympics!

The London 2012 Olympics in our country, in our lifetime, in my husbands home city.

Can you tell we were a bit excited?

So excited in fact that we kept saying "We're at the Olympics" to each other...

A year on from my theatre group, Two Rivers Theatre Company, featuring in The Independent on Sunday talking about Calendar Girls, the darling paper has done a follow up piece.

This time they have spoken to lots of groups all over the country asking why they...

Sunday saw us all go out for a meal for Father's day. Myself, hubby, the boy, Nanny P and Granddad Atu.

We chose a very nice pub near to where my parents live which is now run by twin brothers and the chef I know as I'm friends with...

This is my Father's day tribute to the boy's Dad. Not only is he the best father in the world but the best husband in the world.

One of my strongest memories of the day the boy was born was when we were back on the ward and I...

The boy has started to express himself!

And I don't just mean by screaming, although he is still doing an awful lot of that, but actually by communicating needs, wants, desires, emotions - call them what you will.

He's always been very good with his language and single or...

It's been a little while since I did a foodie blog and as today I've been somewhat of a domestic goddess I thought I'd put that right.

Today I made a cake. Not just any old cake but a cake from the new book by "The Great British Bake Off"...

I'm a bit in love with my bunting!

I think bunting everywhere has been the best bit of this Jubilee weekend. It's just so... cheery.

We've had rain, wind, sun, more rain, choirs and orchestras in the rain, people floating down the Thames in the rain and the Duke of...

On Saturday I went on a course. It was called "How to Feel Good from the Inside Out" and Hippy Chick was running it.

I had done the course before as a half day, but after feedback Hippy Chick decided to extend it to a full day so it wasn't...

We've had the build up.

We've had the hen do! (apologies for having only written part 1 of that - other parts to follow I promise)

So last Friday week we had the wedding.

The wedding being that of Ken and Mr Ken.

Ken is my dear friend who sat...

So last Tuesday was my 42nd birthday and Hubby and I went on a brewery tour of Adnams in Southwold.

Nanny P had the boy for the afternoon and we ate fish and chips out of the paper, then went along for a look at how they brew our...

Last Saturday I went shopping with Lemon Cake Lady in what turned out to be a "tits and arse" day!

We had escaped for a whole day and got to be us again instead of Mum.

Don't get me wrong, we love being Mum's but sometimes you just need...

To quote The Smiths - "panic on the streets of London, panic on the streets of Birmingham, I wonder to myself... "

What I wonder to myself is firstly who are all these people queuing for fuel and panic buying the pumps dry?

If social media networks are to be...

Just when you thought it was safe to put Oscar and the boy back in the same room together, there was an "incident at the pass" yesterday evening!

It was bath time and in order to get the boy to do anything now you have to prise him away from...