I’m feeling a bit sorry for myself today. I’m completely full up with a cold, my eyes and nose are streaming, I have a sore throat and a pounding headache that won’t shift. As I said to Cardiff Daddy this morning as I dragged myself reluctantly out of bed, if...
I love this time of year as far as fashion is concerned. The sun always seems to shine in September, yet there’s usually a slight chill in the air, meaning it’s all about knitwear and boots for me, but without the need to fully wrap up as in winter. But...
Yesterday, at around 11am in the morning, I reached an amazing milestone on Cardiff Mummy Says. Half a million page views on my blog! That means my posts have been viewed over 500,000 times. Five hundred thousand! That’s amazing! I want to say thank you to each and every one...
Remember when me-time used to mean curling up on the settee on a Sunday afternoon and watching a chick flick or three with a box of chocolates? Or binge reading a novel in a day? Or using your lunch break from work to sit in a coffee shop on your...
Ah, the school run. That blissful time of day when children enthusiastically leap out of bed no earlier than 7am, eat their breakfast with no fuss, and put on their school uniform, shoes and coats without even being asked. The sun is always shining when you leave the house and...
I bought this book at a car boot sale for 20p around four years ago. I’d never heard of it before, but I recognised the name of its author Giles Andreae as the creator of Giraffes Can’t Dance and Rumble In The Jungle, so I figured it had to be...
As well as the blogging, I’m also a yoga teacher. Recently, I attended a yoga training day where we were asked to bring a long a lunch dish to share. One of my friends brought a pot of the most delicious black bean chilli. It was so good I had...
I’ve spent most of the last six and half years either pregnant, breastfeeding or carrying a bit of excess baby weight. As a result, I’ve spent most of that time in maternity wear or outfits I could breastfeed in. In between, I’ve made do with clothes that are well past...
Yesterday, someone went out of their way to hold a shop door open for me – and it made me cry. For various reasons, I’d been having a really bad day. Just one of those days where it feels like the whole world is against you, even though nothing especially...
If you’ve been out and about in Cardiff over the last few weeks you might well have seen this little dinosaur and fox scootering and running around. These tails have visited Heath Park, Roath Park, Cardiff Bay Barrage and Tredegar House among other places....
Like most little girls her age, Little Miss E, my 5¾-year-old daughter, adores fairy tales, princesses and happy ever afters. Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Rapunzel; the Disney films, the old-fashioned Ladybird books, the dressing-up costumes – she loves it all. I don’t have a problem...