This is the home of my weekly ramblings - the honest, funny, and sometimes chaotic blogs about parenting, autism, ADHD, midlife wobbles, and emotional burnout.
Yes, if life feels messy, you’ll feel right at home here.

There’s something about this time of year that makes even the calmest of humans slightly unhinged. One minute we're gearing up for fireworks and leftover pumpkin pie... The the next, it’s tinsel explosions, Mariah Carey, and full-blown panic over whether the kids’ stockings look 'balanced'. And just like that, the Great Shopping Countdown is upon us! (Pic of Santa on our Ring doorbell from Christmas 2024 for extra festiveness.) This year though, I’m feeling quietly smug, b

I’m officially 24 days (as of publishing this post) away from some family quality time. And by that, I mean my mother-in-law is coming to stay. Yes. That  mother-in-law. The one who inspired last year’s Dragon-in-Law Landing Game, where some of my lovely (and slightly unhinged) followers sent me random words to slip into conversation with her. You know, for emotional support. Words like Broomstick , raunchy , and bananas . And somehow, I managed to get a good few of them in

I saw an article a few weeks ago, I can’t remember where, but it was jumping on the unschooling bandwagon. Inciting more hate towards...

Some weeks are about deep insights and personal growth. This? This is not one of those weeks. Sorry. Instead, this week has been a...

I think I've finally found my calling in life. Yup. I am a Scam Magnet . It's a bit like a babe magnet, or chick magnet, only I'm 42 and...

Why is ' No' the hardest word in the English language to say out loud? (Well, apart from 'moist' maybe.) We twist ourselves into...

Whilst I’m not in the business of jumping on trends or news bandwagons, it was hard to miss last week’s uproar over the alleged trans...

They say it’s not about the destination - it’s about the journey. Only those people have clearly never driven from Scotland to Cornwall...

The husband returned home last week from a rather 'heated' destination, shall we say, both in terms of temperature and current global...

Who turned the thermometer up? As a midlife ticket holder, I did not  sign up for this mini heatwave. It wasn’t mentioned in the small...

I haven't found much time to write lately. Actually, I haven't found much time for anything beyond the kids, and house chores, and the...

I'm not the kind of person to go to the doctor's. I'd rather suffer in silence (by which I mean grumble to the cat and make 'Urgh'...

Running a work from home business sounds dreamy on paper. I mean, I love nothing more than slumping into my big old office chair on a...