Category: Monthly Musing

“Bye Mum, you can go now!” Small daughter was going out for the day with her Girl Guide unit and having dropped her off at the railway station to meet the rest of the...

Do you ever have those times when you realise that you’ve not done something that you intended to do, feeling your stomach sink in that moment of “Uh oh, how do I fix that?”...

“Did you think I’d forgotten to make the tea?” It was a Sunday morning and I was in a shared hotel room with one of my best friends. It had been a gloriously indulgent...

Big daughter’s mantra at the moment is “Live your best life”. It’s a good mantra and one that I am happy to adopt for myself, although I am less pleased when she whispers it...

I spend a lot of time on social media, in my own Winwick Mum Facebook groups (here and here) and in others, and also on Instagram where I love to see the stream of...

Our Aga turned itself off very suddenly last week.  It has been known to do this (although thankfully not often) and usually the only indication is a bad smell in the kitchen before a flurry...