The Gallery - Friendships

This week’s subject on The Gallery is friendship, I thought it would be easy but trying to find my pictures was hard. A lot of my older pictures are in storage I really need to get them and scan then so I can share them with you.  

I’m really lucky when it comes to friends, I may not have many but those are do have are fantastic.

These lovely people above are my brother and sisters. On the left is my sister V, we are very close now though it hasn’t always been that way, when we we’re younger we were so nasty to each but now I couldn’t live without her. On the left is the two D’s, they are very close as well, not that we don’t get on but they are closer in age, there is 10 years between me and my sister. We are good friends now that we are all older. I’m really happy they live near each other as me and V lives a few hours away.

The lady *ahem* in the photos above is one of my best friends N, we meet 9 ½ years ago when my boss at the time hired her to work at the pub I was supervisor in. She had just turned 18 and she tottered in wearing high heels with this tiny handbag, I bed the locals she’d last two weeks. Well I was *so* wrong, she had a wicked sense of humour and a heart of gold. We’ve been through a lot together and also had a lot of fun as you can see from the pictures above.

The lady above is my other best friend K, I have 100’s of photos somewhere of us but I just can’t find them. We meet at college when I was 17, we went clubbing one night and have been fast friends ever since.  I know that if I ever needed help K would be there in a shot, we’ve also been through a lot but come out fighting the other side.

One of the great things about these friendships is the future friendships they have started to grow. 

Top left is K’s daughter who believe it or not is only 7 weeks younger than BG; I love that they will grow up together

Top right is N’s daughter who is almost 7; she dotes on BG like a little sister. I’m hoping she will look out for her.

Bottom is my sister’s D’s daughter, who is 8 months younger than BG. I think its great that she will have a cousin close in age to grow up with.

I love all my friends dearly, they have changed me and helped me in many ways and I hope our children grow up to be great friends like us. 

NM X 

The Soundtrack To My Week

As you may have noticed my poor blog has been neglected this week, well that's because OH is on holiday this week.


Normal service will resume next week but while I'm gone enjoy this......


Madonna, Holiday 

Desert Island Question

The lovely Julia at Tales From The Heads Office has tagged me in the Desert Island Question meme.
I have to answer the following three questions:-
You are being sent to a Desert Island & can take:
One person (living/dead/known to you/famous etc)
One piece of music
One book or item of reading

This was not easy but here are my answers.

Person - John Peel

Music - I couldn't choose just one song so Julia said I could choose an album and its 'New Jersey ' by Bon Jovi

Book - Heidi by Johanna Spyri its my favourite book. 

I'm tagging  all the lovely mummy bloggers who are in my category in the Mads finals.

Muddling Along Mummy

Young and Younger 

Mellow Mummy 

Babyrambles 

NM X 

PS there is still time to vote

The Soundtrack To My Week

This week I've been brave, I'm really proud of what I've achieved in my life but it hasn't always been easy.


This week I'm been in print twice!! Once in Practical Parenting at the beginning of the week and yesterday in my local paper. Both post about my blogging, and in my local paper an added extra of begging for votes in the MAD awards.


I also wrote a guest post for Breaking The Silence about my struggle with depression, its the first time I have ever written about it and I feel proud and brave about speaking up about it, please pop over if you get a chance and read my post 'What A Difference A Year Makes' 


The song I've chosen this week represents the hope that everything will work out just right!


This is my favourite version of this song...........................


Somewhere over the Rainbow by Eva Cassidy 






NM X

The Gallery - Men

The men in my life weren't keen on me posting pictures of them on my blog (sshhh don't tell them I have in the past) so I though I share some new pictures of BG with you.

Now its not cheating *ahem* as technically BG wouldn't exist without the men in my life!! There are two main men in my life my dad and OH. I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for my dad and neither would BG. 


I've shared with you before how lucky I am to have my dad, he is really supportive and always has time for me no matter how busy he is, me and my sister have always come first. My dad has shared his wisdom with us and his passion for music, the theatre and rugby and thanks to him we have the same loves. My dad still to this day looks out for me, just yesterday I was on the phone to him talking about a trip to London me and BG are taking on Saturday. Whilst on the phone he checked what tube line we needed and whether there were any works on the line that day, he's so sweet. He is a great dad and a fantastic dotting granddad.  


Then there is my Other Half, who I have told you many times is fantastic and supportive. He's not perfect but he's perfect for me, we are total opposites in some ways and exactly the same in the others and without him I wouldn't have my BG!


This is for this weeks Gallery, the prompt was Men.


NM X 

How Do You Deal With The Grumps?

BG has been having the odd tantrum for a few months now but this past week has been a complete nightmare. There are has been tantrums, screaming, tears (hers and mine) and shouting (not something I'm really proud of).


I don't know if it because she's teething or the change in the weather but she's been pushing hard this week and I'm been to almost breaking point with her. Saturday was the worst day, she keeps climbing up on the arm of the sofa then trying to lean over to press buttons on the TV, Sky + box and grab CD's (we need to move it all but means a big re-shuffle). 


It didn't matter how many times I told her to get down she wouldn't move. So I started counting to 5 with her and if she didn't get down I would get her down my self, this worked for a while and then she thought it was a game. I tried explaining that its dangerous and that didn't work.


As the day went by I found my self getting more and more annoyed and snapped and shouted at her and called her naughty which is not the type of parent I want to be. I had to put her in her cot three times for a time-out because she kept screaming and throwing her self around.


By the time OH got home I had a glass of wine ready to go and a bath half run, I passed her over and had half an hour to my self. I can't go on like this, she has tantrums in town when we go out, its completely draining.


I need help parents what's the best way to approach this? She's 17 months old I'm dreading the terrible twos!


NM x 


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Plastic Joy, Sunshine and Photo's

Over the last month I've been tagged with a few meme's and as usual I've let them build up so here they are:-


Firstly I've been tagged by Lorraine, Sally, Leslieanne and Victoria to do the Plastic Joy meme or the freebie 5, I have to share with you the 5 fictional characters I would *ahem* spend the night with, you get my drift. 


Now I am I little worried sharing this list with you, not only will you see my taste in men but you will find out what crap TV I watch. I'm not going into why I *like* them, I just do.


In no particular order ......

                                                             Warrick Brown from CSI. 

                                                             Colby from Numb3rs 

                                                            G Callen from NCIS:LA

                                                      Owen Hunt from Greys Anatomy 

                                                           Larry Paul in Ally McBeal 


I know many of you have done this meme so I'm not going to pass in it on to anyone in particular, if you haven't done it then feel free to do so.


Next the lovely Mrs Lucia-Wright tagged me with the  Sunshine award.

All I have to do is pass this onto other bloggers that bring sunshine in to my life, so here are some of them.


Liz at Living With Kids
Josie at Sleep Is For The Weak
Sally at Who's The Mummy
Carly at Mummy Shoes
Susan at SusanKmann
Tim at Bringing up Charlie
Victoria at Its A Small World After All 


OK now I'm going to cheat slightly I've been tagged for some meme's I have already done so I'm going to link to them!


YummyMummyno1  and  BabyGenie  tagged me in the Photo meme, I did this last year so click here to see it. 


SusanKmann tagged me in the 7 things meme which I did just last week on Midlands Mums so pop over and take a look 


Phew that's them done, I have go a few more to do but I will do them next week. If you want to do any of these meme's the go ahead!


NM X 


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