My IdeaLife

My Kingdom for a Kiss Upon Her Shoulder

It's been 18 years since his blood warmed our hearts and his, but his voice remains and still inspires...Read more...

The love of your life

Is it a man, is it a career, no it's superbaby!...Read more...

A lifetime of beauty in a song

Middle East (the band not the place) have somehow condensed the human experience into this soulful song: Blood...Read more...

Superwomen have it all by NOT doing it all

Superwoman really don't exist, it's more like Insanitywoman, so stop pretending and start outsourcing...Read more...

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

DAMN YOU CORRECT! HUH?

You probably don’t need convincing to appreciate the perfection of the iPhone. It is a beautiful thing that people would quite happily have sewn in to their arms if they...

Monday, 14 November 2011

YOU SCREAM, I SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM...

The innocuous source of pure mayhem I have two boys, now 2-and-a-half and 14 months, commonly known as Bang and Crash. By all accounts things are getting a little easier as...

Friday, 11 November 2011

MUMMY'S FUNKY FRIDAY: Street Art

Give me Streets around the world over a stuffy gallery any day! Welcome to the second week of Mummy's Funky Friday, your weekly dose of my new favourite word, alt-worthy stuff...

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

OUR FIRST KISS

Rodin's "The Eternal Idol" Sketched by love-obsessed 25 year old me. I sketched this in Vienna when I was 25. I was sitting on the floor of a Museum, as you do when you're...

Friday, 4 November 2011

MUMMY'S FUNKY FRIDAY : Pumped Up Kicks

My recent Friday Night Lights stories got me thinking about how life as a parent can be so boring that a loud street party you're not at and a bit of car bashing...

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Friday Night Lights - Part 2: Flashing

I'm sure my single, not-so-sober self of 2004 would have nothing to learn from this situation The teenagers were gone and the only hum I could hear was the soft yet...

Sunday, 30 October 2011

Friday Night Lights - Part 1: Lasers

Friday night 2004-style: Notice amazing dance moves and alcohol in background, of course they are not related! When I was single I looked forward to Friday night the way a...

Friday, 28 October 2011

Motherhood Unearthed

As I write nearly three billion Google searches have happened, 98 million tweets posted and 210 billion emails sent and that’s just today. We are living in an age of information,...

Monday, 24 October 2011

Problogger Training Day: Rangars, red wine & blogging from the heart

After 9 days enduring, I mean enjoying travel with two unruly toddlers and a very stretched hubby I fumbled to a seat at the Problogger training day 15 minutes late, sweaty...

Saturday, 15 October 2011

Toddlers at 30,000ft: just flying "high"

Flying with children, especially very young children, is always a source of some anxiety for parents. Such was the case on Thursday when we woke at 5.30am to ensure we were...

Saturday, 8 October 2011

Holding on

I was about 30m away, my joyous 2 year old son, Bang, was running across a field, one he always heads for after we’ve been to the playground adjacent. He was not alone, he...

Thursday, 6 October 2011

"The architect of our lives" RIP Steve Jobs

RIP Steve Jobs  1955 - 2011 “Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because...

Sunday, 2 October 2011

Blogging and the bright side

There are two groups of people who have an unlikely but uncanny resemblance to each other they are: Eternal optimists you know the glass-half-full types that can turn being...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Is Facebook going bad or moving forward?

As you can probably tell from my smattering of posts about Facebook on every social media network I’m a bit taken with the new Timeline feature. It is so fun and you can read...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Crashed and burned: what is it with firemen?

Remember when you used to get really excited when the fire brigade showed up just because you got to perve at all the firemen? It was especially fun at work so you could giggle...