Tag: family
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#ThrowbackThursday: Review for A Marriage of Convenience by Stevie Turner #Contemporary Fiction #Family Life @StevieTurner6
#ThrowbackThursdays have been a brilliant way to replace some of our missing Amazon reviews… and give us all another chance to read about these amazing books! Gerrie Hermann, aspiring rock star from a rich South African family, has an unusual proposal for Sophie Woods when he meets her for the first time in their…
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Electricity…
I was watching my favourite programme the other day when everything went black. I knew instantly what had happened. Jaye was in the back garden, using the new hedge cutter. Sure enough, she had cut right through the cable. Some things she has a definite knack for and this was not the first time…
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Crazy Cats!
My son, Stephen took this video with his phone the other day, and I had to share it! Take a look and you will see why…
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#Jaye’s Journal (or how to Juggle a Couch!)
Most weeks in our house are usually a mishmash of incidents, some good and a few of the other kind. But whatever happens there is never a dull moment around here! This past week has excelled itself, hurtling from one mini-disaster to another. At one point, I contemplated staying in bed, just to break…
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Flash Fiction from Anita…
“Jaye will hopefully be back tomorrow, as she is much better at this than I am…”
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Anita is in charge today!
Anita has volunteered to take charge today, as my head still feels as if it is full of porridge… A Pane of Glass… Through my window, I watch the three hazelnut trees across the road from my house. In the autumn, the leaves change colour and fall and the old bird’s nest comes into view.…
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Brainstorming Sisters!
Have you ever noticed that when something stalls in one area of your life, it affects everything else? This was what had been happening in our house for over a week, so my sister, Anita decided that we should have one of our brainstorming sessions this morning. Something we do now and then which…
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The Final Straw…
The bay windows in our living room have long been a source of annoyance. Over the years, we have had an assortment of curtains and blinds, but none were good enough to pass muster. Every time we walk into the room, our eyes are drawn to the awfulness of it all and the long-standing…
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Of Mice and Men!
We are getting closer to launch day for Lazy Days, and my head is swimming with ideas to make it even more interesting. It is making it a lot more complicated too, but I digress! I am also being driven mad with worry that I have done something wrong, or worse still, forgotten to do…
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The Christmas Windows…
Earlier this year, I was surfing the web and saw something that literally grabbed my imagination from a company called Snow Windows. They use spray snow to create these amazing Christmas designs on shop windows. I secretly wondered if I could do something like this myself for Christmas. I mean, I could push a…