This winter is going to be hard. Perhaps the hardest I've experienced since I was a child. Already it's cold but it's going to g...

What a dreadful time we are living through, the world is in a sorry state with climate change not being addressed and war in Europe for the ...

I think I underestimated the effect getting a puppy would have on our household. Magnus has turned our lives upside down.

Ever since Angel passed there has been an emptiness in my life. Our home feels empty without her.

This should have been the blog post I wrote the other week before Angel passed. For some time now, years in fact, our boiler has struggled t...

Friday was Mental Health Awareness Day. Over the last few months I've been increasingly aware that my own mental health has been slip...

Some couples are inseparable, others keep their distance. I like to think that we strike a healthily balance. We love to spend our time t...

We normally put up the tree and decorations on the first weekend in December. Unfortunately this year I was working so we've had to t...

This weekend Morticia has gone away with the girls so I've been left 'home alone', well not quite. I'm here with Rags and...

We live in a small house. It's got 3 bedrooms but they are small. It's fine for us. So when Morticia's father turned up on ...

I get 1 weekend off in every 3 with my current shift pattern. This makes every weekend quite special. This weekend I planned to sort out ...

So my week without Morticia is almost over. I've spent the week mostly being horizontal, eating junk and watching movies and Netflix....

Well, not quite alone but all this week it'll be me with my (not so) little girl, Rags. Morticia is off to spend a week at her mother...

Being a shift worker means I'm at home in the day quite often. The local postman and quite a few of the courier drivers have figured ...

People tend to think I'm anti Christmas. I'm not. What I hate is the comercialisation and the hype. I hate the fact that shops st...

Preparing for a holiday can be stressful. Not for me, as long as I know where I'm going and I've got clean pants for every day t...

We are currently looking at redecorating our living room. The biggest job is to replace our ageing carpet with a laminate floor, somethin...

Since returning from holiday I've aimed for a little quality time with my family. This has involved sitting in the house with Morticia a...

I just got an energy meter for free from my energy provider. It's interesting to see which appliances are energy hungry and which aren...

Morticia went to Nottingham for a 'girlie' weekend this weekend and left me to look after the kids. I don't mind, sometimes I ev...