Chez Spud

I’m SO excited about this guest post [Spud does a little dance]. I know absolutely nothing about shooting stars (as in taking photos of them rather than those ones that scoot across the sky, although knowledge of the latter is also shockingly scant) but I DO know that our guest blogger Amber is the bee’s [...]

If you leave a vast pile of boxes in the garage with a leaky roof  for ‘just a few weeks’ (um, 9 months ago) you can expect some of them to have rotted away, taking their contents with them.
It doesn’t matter how many times you say, ‘That’s IT! I’m never moving again!’, some day you [...]

Oh yes, it’s true…I am a Big Fat Liar! Let the facts speak for themselves:
1. This is secret 30. No it isn’t, I miscounted, this is actually secret 31 and I purposely didn’t renumber the secrets to keep you all in suspenders. Lie 1.
2. I took the above photo myself. No, I didn’t. Peer closer [...]

A week or so ago I spotted a little ‘nugget’ on The Fragrant Muse’s blog, where she’d jotted down a few of her ‘gremlins’ with a view to banishing them, or at least giving them a glancing blow, by putting them down in writing.  I admired her honesty for sharing and started musing on whether [...]

Every day I stack and unload my dishwasher 200 times. I ‘may’ be exaggerating, but it certainly feels like 200 times a day and it’s one of my Worst Jobs…right up there with putting clean duvet covers on. Mostly I don’t like it because of the sheer monotony, I feel like I’ve entered a little, [...]