Life, chaos, and cats—with a side of accidental internet success. I’m Mandy: midlife, single forever, and somehow making a living sharing honest stories, product reviews, and the occasional existential crisis. Expect travel adventures, neurodivergent-friendly finds, and daily life with five rescue cats. It’s a bit messy, a bit magical, and always real.
I've never been one for complicated lists of new years resolutions which I'll promptly give up or forget about…
Yep, I pinched that one from the song dear reader, you can forgive me because when I was thinking about writing a blog…
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Good morning dear reader and Merry Christmas, I hope that you had the most splendid of days and that your boxing day ha…
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You know that Adam came before Eve right? Yep it's officially Christmas Adam dear reader and tonight will be the …
I think it's fair to say that 2014 has been for me a bit of a rough one, there were good things which happened don…
Friday dear reader and never has it taken so long to get to the end of a week. This week has just been awful from a h…
I came down with flu on Saturday tea-time quite suddenly and managed to work on Sunday but since then I've been pr…
I had rather hoped, dear reader that I would be feeling significantly better by now but blimey I'm still really n…
You'll have to excuse the lateness of my post today, after 3 hours on the beach in sub zero temperatures on Saturd…
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Apologies for not blogging yesterday but between work and this sweet little face all of my time is taken up right now. …
2 weeks until Christmas dear reader, am I ready? Well my wine rack is for sure, I won another bottle of wine yesterda…
I make absolutely no apologies that my blog is about to come the most dog filled blog in the world, I can…
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Apologies for no blogging yesterday, this weekend has been a very busy one with a wedding on Saturday, portraits on Sun…
I've noticed something lately dear reader, when I am on my own and left to get on with my life I have less anxiety…
Good festive morning to you dear reader, I wrote a blog this morning which I have to admit was a bit of a mis mash and…
When I think about it now, the man I married and spent my life with was always hot headed, irrational and possessive b…
The festive period has well and truly landed at Charlton towers, yesterday we festooned the house with as many Christm…
Well it's officially December the first dear reader and at the time of writing this I made it to December before p…
I can remember the moment I fell in love with my husband, it was 15 years ago and we were on a date, Iain was there to…
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Dear reader, yes it's another work post so skip on through if you're just here for the juicy personal stuff, h…
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