Product review: Quinola Mothergrain kids’ organic and gluten-free quinoa range
This is my first ever food product review, so bear with my while I try to find my feet. I’m a very fussy eater. Like very fussy. Like “I don’t like what it looks...
View ArticleGirls can be cool too, right?
I’ll set the scene for you. It was Sunday morning. We were in Lidl, in the middle isle where they usually have their toys and cookware and clothing and other items that you can...
View ArticleMy tried and tested 7 ways to manage seasonal allergies
With the dreary Irish summer in full swing, with rain the last few days. I have to say that my allergies have never been better. Which isn’t much of a solution. Don’t worry, this...
View ArticleHere there be Dragons! Netflix party
Did I tell you how excited I was? I probably didn’t. Well, I was excited. In fairness Roz was excited too, but I’d say I was more excited than she was. I got a...
View ArticleOh, the places she will go!
Today my little baby, who was no more than a mewling, pooping babe in my arms four years ago, finished preschool. It was very emotional. Remembering her first week last October when she cried...
View ArticleTo make an end is to make a beginning….
And so we’ve arrived. It’s Sunday night, the night before Roz enters the river of structured and formal education and gets swept through it’s many twists and turns. She’s in the bathroom right now,...
View ArticleThe first rung of school has been climbed – Hooray!
It was a very strange start to the day. Roz opened her eyes at exactly 7:33, gave me a big smile and said, “Today is big school!” What better way is there to start...
View ArticleThe end is really f*****g nigh!
So, I’m back in college. The difference being that this is my last year. My final year. The last six months of the course. Thirteen days of lectures, twelve group therapy sessions, six clinical...
View ArticleWhen religion enters politics
As I write this, many Zambians have just ended their mandatory, christian related twelve hours of fasting. I don’t even know where to begin. I’ll put my hands p straight away and say...
View ArticleWhat I’ve been watching on Netflix
It’s been a while, I know. My laptop, which I’ve had for five..nearly six years, has been acting up and I’m just no good at typing u posts on a phone. This is the...
View ArticleAnd who I am needs no excuses – or masks.
You might have noticed – or maybe you hadn’t, who knows – the tumbleweed piling up and blowing over my blog in recent months. I guess for those who read my blog diligently (probably...
View ArticleReflections on my recent illness
I hate being ill. HATE. IT. I doubt anyone loves it, to be fair, but oh, I hate it with a passion. On the 19th December, on the first day of my Christmas annual leave,...
View ArticleNetflix StreamTeam: Seven shows Roz is watching on Netflix
I have to start be saying I’m absolutely delighted to be entering my second year as a Netflix Streamteam member. I love television shows and movies! There, I said it. and I always struggle...
View ArticleHeeeeeres Jessie!
So Roz now has her own room. Okay, I say *now* but she’s had it for about a month I think? …. Anyway, it was time. There were only so many times I could...
View ArticleThe week I was reminded that I am black
It’s been a long couple of weeks. Between starting and finishing my dissertation over a two and a half week period (which I would not advise) and trying to mind a five-year-old at...
View ArticleThat’s soooo you! Objects of me blog-link
Sunday was Father’s Day as most people know and as Facebook went on fire with Facebook memes and messages and photographs of fathers, I was busy polishing up my blog post. Maud over at Awfully...
View ArticleVoltron: Legendary defender (Netflix Streamteam)
I haven’t done a Netflix post in a long while because for a long while, I was snowed under with college work, but I’m back now to my usual bingeing self. And while...
View ArticleDublin MC Comic Con
Where do I start? We had a fantastic day! This was our second year attending the event and it was Awesome! Last year we went on a Saturday, and it was packed to the...
View ArticleWeek 37 and counting
Almost there. It’s been a very long pregnancy and I can’t wait to meet this little one. For starters, we know it’s a girl, which Krzys and Roz are delighted about and I...
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