It's becoming a rarity for me to stick to the blog posts I have scheduled for the week. Once again, today I was taken completely off track by something I saw over at Facebook. But can I find it? Alas no! When I do I will share it on my page. There was a story about a mother who claimed she was too poor to eat properly. Overweight, she commented she cannot ...
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Open House / Redecorating, The C Word & Mr Thornton
I enjoyed last Thursday's Open House, so much, everyone. Thank you for popping by. I hope you'll be over again today? You may have noticed that my virtual home has been redecorated. I'm not really one for change, but fancied a little bit of colour. Now, I only use free WordPress templates, currently, so I'm limited in what I can do to the place ;) But ...
Is Downton Abbey Educational?
My 6-year-old son loves Downton Abbey. In particular he adores the character - Mary. Downton Abbey returned to the UK, for its 5th series, on Sunday. But he doesn't watch it as it is shown on TV - we catch up on Netflix (we haven't yet started series 4 - and I am aware this series caused some controversy in the UK press so we may skip it either wholly or ...