by Lyndsey Thomas | Mar 25, 2018 | Life & Parenting, Uncategorized
Well hello British Summer time! OK so it’s not quite summer but the sun is shining and that is good enough for me. I haven’t posted a post for ages on my mental health. And it’s certainly not because I’ve had nothing to say. But that’s...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Oct 19, 2017 | Life & Parenting, Uncategorized
My first holiday alone with small children I’ve always had a lot of respect for my single parent friends. I’ve always had a lot of respect for my single parent friends. But that respect has been taken to a whole new level of admiration after a week-long...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Oct 7, 2017 | Life & Parenting, Uncategorized
In the 1980s, long before the invention of modern technology, special effects and computer graphics, our little imaginations were fuelled by lots of plastercine, kitchen utensils, and black velvet back-drops with stick-on, glow in the dark stars that created the...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Jul 8, 2017 | Life & Parenting, Uncategorized
Why I choose to have stories to tell not stuff to show Two weeks ago I purchased the final plane ticket of three so that Mr T could join me on a work trip to Canada. Just Mr T and I. A kid-free adventure abroad together for the first time in seven years. There was a...
by Lyndsey Thomas | May 31, 2017 | Special Features, Uncategorized
Hire Yorkshire’s queen of fun, filth & frolics You know me, I’m a sucker for anything that brings back nostalgic memories of my 1980s youth up north. So when this crazy bird called Sarah whipped out a tray with a carefully constructed tightly packed...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Dec 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
The tight northerner in me can’t bear to bin the half-eaten pork pie and two thirds of a bowl of trifle. Half empty tubs of cream, brandy butter, pate. And cheese! Red cheese, white cheese, smelly cheese, cheese with fruit in it, goats cheese… every type of...