Hello Saturday!

Yesterday I turned 45! I look so young don’t I?!!! No huge celebrations – but some lovely flowers and cards. You know, as a blog reader, I am a bit camera shy, but here are a few not-so-recent photos of me Before the days of car seats and seat belts! This was me with “bunbun”…

We have now had 2 weeks of being back to school, and everyone is “back to porridge” (I have always found that a weird saying!). All the books are covered, the uniforms labelled, and most of the consent forms appear to be completed, but I am sure there are still a few lurking around. As…

It is always lovely to receive a bunch of flowers, occasionally I treat myself to some, but it is much nicer to receive them from someone else – whether to say “thanks”, “I love you”, “Get well soon” or maybe even sorry!!! In times gone by of course, it was much more complicated as each…

Following on from our Christmas Eve traditions …. here is a traditional Christmas in our house. The alloted time for our 8 year old to come in and wake us up was 7am, but as he was sick in the night with a high temperature and we saw him at 4am, 5am and 6am ……..

This Christmas I am pleased to have the opportunity to share the news of a Cookson Christmas on the Drama channel. As an avid reader growing up, I loved to curl up with a book on a Sunday afternoon (with my back to the radiator!). I was that child happiest with her nose in a…