by Helen Suddes | Nov 12, 2018 | Life & Parenting, Mental Mondays
“Stress-head” How many times do we use the word stressed in our everyday vocab? How often is something stressing you out? Daily, hourly? How many job interviews have you had where you’ve been asked how well you work under pressure or to explain how you...
by Helen Suddes | Oct 6, 2018 | Days Out In Yorkshire, Days Out in Yorkshire, Life & Parenting
(Review of Marshall’s Beach Huts at Saltburn-by-the-Sea by Helen Suddes, North Yorkshire) Or Mary, or Anne or Victoria. No, not a verse from Mambo Number 5 but some of the names of Marshalls Beach Huts at Saltburn-by-the-Sea. The husband has just departed to...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Oct 1, 2018 | Life & Parenting, Mental Mondays, Special Features
“It’s our 10th wedding anniversary for fuck sake!” I have kept meaning to update you – honestly I have. Truth is, my declaration of sobriety has taken somewhat of a back seat over the summer. Not intentionally, it just sort of happened....
by Lyndsey Thomas | Sep 3, 2018 | Life & Parenting, Mental Mondays
I bumped into one of the mums from school on Friday in Waitrose. Well, not quite ‘bumped’. She clocked me across the wine section to my horror. I was in no state for a chit-chat about school holiday bliss. I’d had 30 minutes of Teddy’s...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Jun 19, 2018 | Life & Parenting, Mental Mondays
Today is Day 50. Not quite 50 days without absolutely any alcohol, but 50 days since I made the decision to change my relationship with the poison. My best friend Adele’s wedding on 2nd June, 32 days after my last alcoholic drink, was always going to be a big...
by Lyndsey Thomas | May 20, 2018 | Life & Parenting, Mental Mondays
I’m sat in my kitchen enjoying a well-deserved cup of Yorkshire tea – observing my very clean kitchen-diner. I’ve spent the last two hours wiping the chocolate fingerprints of four year olds off the glass of my rather large French windows. I’ve...
