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How To Fail At Dieting

1) Start dieting in the week leading up to Easter when chocolate pops out at you from every corner of every shop, and the kids are home and want to make chocolate nest cakes. You are of course under no obligation to eat said nest cakes. But do anyway. 2) Mix your eating plans. Invent your own unscientific diet based on the tastiest parts of several popular diet plans. Eat the high protein of the Atkins, alongside the carbs of the low fat diet....

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Syd’s pre-school have been talking about what they want to be when they grow up, they even have to dress up as their chosen thing in a couple of weeks. Syd’s answer currently is ‘a blue Pikmin’. For the uninitiated a Pikmin is a small character, that comes in various colours, from a video game that his brother plays. Nice to have an ambition, although I am baffled as to how to make the costume. He very sweetly keeps...

Saturday is New Home Caption Day

The ever splendiferous Annie from Mammasaurus has decided it is time to pass on the treasured Cap of Saturday-ness, but do not fear, there will still be a place to go when you need your funny pictures captioned! SatCap will now have four new hosts, and I am bloomin’ chuffed all the way down to my bobby socks to be one of them, alongside Keynko, Mummy Barrow and Kiddycharts. It is my turn first, and I have a blurry but hopefully amusing...

Anarchic Snap And Other Toddler Efficiency Drives

I taught Syd snap yesterday. The first round or two went very well, until he recognised the flaw in the rules. I say flaw, it isn’t really a flaw unless you are two and only care about saying snap as opposed to sticking to the general premise and waiting for them to happen naturally. His new more anarchic snap involves remembering what cards are further down the pile and rummaging for them before gleefully shouting...

Why do we care?

My twitter feed was full of heartfelt messages about the sad death of Peaches Geldof last night. None of us knew her, probably if you had asked us the day before we wouldn’t have had a huge opinion on her, except that most of us were on Team Geldof when she appeared with Katie Hopkins on This Morning a few months back. So why do we care so much? I think it is probably because a lot of my twitter feed is made up of Mums. Our hearts break...

Blog Your Heart Out

The lovely Swazi – blogger, DJ and fellow indie kid matron – has tagged me to answer these questions. And because I think she is awesome and love her blog, Chocolate Is Not The Only Fruit, I am going to honour her request! So here goes:- Who/What encouraged you to start blogging? One of my bestest mates and all round good egg, Lynn, had started her blog – A Slice Of Lemon’s Cake – and thought I would like it too....

Three’s a Crowd

So we didn’t get the sodding house. Oh well, it was a stupid house anyway. (It was a lovely house, and am a teensy bit gutted, but you know, onwards and upwards!) I asked the leasing agent if there was any feedback she could give me to improve our chances next time around, and was basically told that this landlord, and many others, prefer smaller families. Before you imagine we are a family of sixteen, let me reassure you that we are a...

Things To Do While You Are Waiting For The Call About A House

Pace. Fret. Check phone is plugged in. Try to read a book. Put book down as can’t focus on plot line. Online shop for new things for the new house, even though you probably won’t get the new house. Panic a bit that you might have chosen the wrong house. List all good things about the house. Panic that you won’t get the house. Eat some crap. Check phone. Again. Realise that if you get good news you will have to pack every bit...

How To Fail At Dieting

Posted by Sonya Cisco on Apr 17, 2014 in Featured, Humour | 21 comments

2) Mix your eating plans. Invent your own unscientific diet based on the tastiest parts of several popular diet plans. Eat the high protein of the Atkins, alongside the carbs of the low fat diet. Discover this doesn’t work.

Easter At Thorntons

Posted by Sonya Cisco on Apr 15, 2014 in Reviews | 0 comments

Easter is only a few days away, and we have been celebrating slightly early with the arrival of some tasty eggs from Thorntons!

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Posted by Sonya Cisco on Apr 14, 2014 in Featured, Nonsense | 31 comments

Saturday is New Home Caption Day

Posted by Sonya Cisco on Apr 12, 2014 in Featured, Photo | 13 comments

Dreaming of Primavera Sound

Posted by Sonya Cisco on Apr 11, 2014 in holidays | 12 comments

Back before I had kids I didn’t really have holidays as such. I went on tours with the band I was in, and saw a lot of Europe that way, but never package holidays to the beach. They didn’t really appeal. They still don’t hugely now, although don’t get me wrong, I love an afternoon with the kids and a bucket and spade, listening to the gentle lapping of a clear blue sea – I just get bored quickly.