Following on from my post on Christmas stress relief, I thought I’d share with you what has worked/is working for me this year so that you too can revel in the same heady delights of stress free-ness (is that a word?  Probably should change it to get the on page SEO right   ) as I have [...]

It’s that time of year again and I cannot believe how quickly the year has flown by.  I like to buy myself a week-to-view diary/journal and take time to write the important dates in it, transferring them carefully from my old diary.  It’s not hi-tech, not the most efficient use of time and there are [...]

School holidays are one of the most stressful times of year for me, and I suspect just about every parent out there!  My two have now been off since mid July and are still not due back for another two weeks   They are very energetic 6-year olds who would play ball games and run [...]

OMG! There is always so much on TV over the Christmas and New Year holidays that I simply cannot watch at the time of screening that we “V plus” it.  This is exactly the same as Sky Plus, but we have a Virgin Media account – hence V+.  What this means is that when I [...]

Happy New Year!  Well the holiday season is drawing to a close and exhausted parents are looking forward to their little ones returning to school – actually some (most?) have probably been looking forward to the schools reopening since they closed before Christmas!  And that’s simply because Christmas, indeed ANY holiday season, is a stressful [...]