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I’m blowing my own cornet today rather than the larger trumpet as I used to play the cornet (another useless fact for you, thank me later) and as I said cornets are smaller so it’s easier to blow your own cornet
I’m joining in with the Sleep is For The Weak Writing Workshop this week and I’m tackling prompt five.
5. Tell us about something, or show us something that you do really, really well and are proud of.
There are many things I’m actually quite proud of, for example my …

I took this photo last year when we vistited Bunchrew House in Inverness. The grounds included a wooded area and a large flowering of wild bluebells.

I’m not a flower person but it was so pretty I couldn’t help but take this rather amateur (I’m sure someone more experienced could have focused better on the bluebells and brought out the colour) photo.

Some people say that talking to yourself is the first sign of madness, I reckon they are the mad ones.
This is an interview with myself.
If you could live with only one cd for the rest of your life what would it be?
Definitely my Ultimate Dirty Dancing, it has every piece of music from the film in chronological order. I love it.

What are you most proud of?
My family and my marriage. Most of us appreciate how difficult it is to be a mum, but many overlook how difficult it …

Little Croc’s Purse by Lizzie Finlay
One hot day, Little Croc finds a lost purse.
“Finders keepers! tease his friends, imagining a treat of lemonade and a lovely cool swim.
But Little Croc is determined to find the purse’s owner…
Will his honesty be rewarded? Or will he be tempted to spend the money inside?
Littlemummy: A cute story promoting the ‘spending, sharing, saving’ ethos. Good for parent’s trying to teach kid’s about pocket money.
Erin: “I liked the purse and the money. I like money because you can spend …

I pinched this one from babyrambles…
When I first started my blog it was very fact based however over the years it has become more personal, especially after I decided to blog about my miscarriages last year, however there are many things I still won’t blog about.
* I don’t blog about friends or family explicitly, ie I won’t slag anyone off or reveal their identities in any way. I may mention a family member but only if it’s really necessary to whatever I’m blogging about.
* …

In The News
Glasgow City Council have paid ?95,000 for a logo for the Commonwealth Games made up of the primary colours (plus green), the letter G and a few circles, hardly value is it. I’m a big fan of the Olympics and these other large sporting events and don’t usually begrudge the funding at all. I do like a bit of value for money though and this overly simplistic rip off logo (apparently the logo is very similar to the logo of some arts council, shown on left …

Write Ideas Down Straight Away
I get a lot of ideas last thing at night and first thing in the morning, regardless of when you get your ideas ensure you write them down or you risk losing them forever.

Write Posts at Naptime
This has always worked for me as it coincides with my best writing time, other alternatives include getting up earlier to blog or as a lot of parent bloggers do, go to bed later (eek!)
Finish Posts Before Reading Other Blogs
Don’t get suckered into reading your 100 blog strong RSS feed …

I went to see Alice in Wonderland on Saturday. So many people have asked me about it on twitter that I thought I’d do a quick review.
The Plot
Well obviously it follows the book which I’ve only read half of. In short (very short)Alice falls down a rabbit hole and discovers an underworld of strange characters. Alice needs to defeat the Jabberwocky to reinstate the White Queen as ruler of Underworld.
The Effects
The effects were amazing, I can no longer tell what is real and what is animated. …

On Sunday after not ski-ing for ten years we ventured back to the dry ski slope where we learnt to ski as teenagers (and also where Alex proposed to me eleven years ago!).
We’ve long harboured a desire to go on a ski holiday and this was the first step towards that.
We’re fortunate that we live ten minutes away from an excellent slope that costs around ?9 an hour including ski hire (much better than the eighty quid a lesson someone tweeted about).
The morning was eventful in that I …

This is a guest post for ‘Guest Post Day’ by Babyrambles, a blog I didn’t read before guest post day but one that has found it’s way into my google reader already!
I?ve decided to travel 400 miles to sit at Erica?s desk. And some desk it is too. You should see this study I?m sitting in, it?s bigger than my living room at home. Erica came up with this brilliant idea of Guest Post Swap Day. But I?m not content with just swapping posts on each other?s blogs, I actually …