1. During my blogging break in October we traded in our family car. We had had our Vauxhall Zafira for seven years and it had nearly reached...

The weather ... wet again. I am so over all this rain! I am wearing ... my comfy snowflake pyjamas. I am reading ... A Country in the Moo...

Tevye and I spent last weekend exploring Gdansk, on the Baltic coast of Poland. His father was born there in 1917 and lived until 1939 in wh...

(Oh dear? Where did the last month go?) I saw this on Faith's blog and I am long overdue a book post. 1. What book are you reading now?...

The weather ... much the same as last week. January. I am wearing ... supersoft grey pyjamas with a snowflake pattern I am reading ... B...

1. I started watching Sherlock after hearing lots of recommendations. After a false start when BBC iPlayer kept cutting out on me I made it ...

The weather ... finally more normal winter weather, colder and less stormy, with some frosty mornings. Still raining off and on though. I a...

I am trying to put my new year's resolutions into action (mixed success and failure so far) but I am doing well with one other small res...

The weather ... awful. Wet, windy, stormy weather which has been a feature for the past month. There are days of cooler, calmer respite, bu...

In the UK young people aged 16 to 18 usually have three options - to stay at school and study for A (Advanced) level exams, to go to college...

I need focus! 2013 was a clinging on by the fingertips sort of year. Half the year was spent trying to juggle studying with full time work a...

My friend Faith wrote this post on her Household Diary blog listing ten things for which she is grateful. It inspired me to do the same. I...

Marie is now part way through her GCSE exam year at school (exams taken at the end of what in the US would be the sophomore year of high sch...

1. We have had a relaxed family Christmas. Tevye, Helen and myself don't go back to work until January so we are getting a long break an...

I posted back in the summer about Helen being offered an apprenticeship . It seemed an exciting opportunity but in the end it never came to ...

I think it will take a post each to fill in the gaps since I last blogged for myself and the girls (not so much has been going on with Tevye...

The weather ... average December weather. Not too cold, sometimes damp and grey, sometimes not. There were a couple of very wet, windy and ...

I will write some proper catch up posts later, but for now a few snippets ... 1. Marie and I have been doing pre-Christmas things. We went t...

Yes, I am still alive. No, I have not forgotten about my blog. Yes, I do still want to keep blogging, I just somehow got out of the habit. T...

The weather ... Ugh! It feels as though it has gone from August to November in four days. Thursday was a glorious hot summer day. Today? W...