It’s time for another series!!
Welcome to The British Maple: Home Sweet Home. After a lengthy and frustrating process, littered with incompetent solicitors, disappearing gas fires and a bit too much wine we have FINALLY exchanged on our first ever British Maple family home. Continue reading
Do you ever look up and wonder when you’ll be as grown-up the people around you? Every flipping day I walk out and marvel at how adult everyone seems to be…except me!
I am the mum on the school run without makeup (or worse, the remnants of yesterday’s makeup because I didn’t tame the tribe long enough for a shower). I am the 33 year-old who still wears a backpack (and not a trendy Fjällräven one, a sensible, boring one from IKEA because it was ‘sturdy for the price’). Continue reading
Some of the eagle-eyed among you might have noticed a slight shift in the ‘tone’ of my posts a few weeks ago. The potty-mouth dried up, I started writing ‘list posts’ and The British Maple started to smell like every other mum blog out there.
Well, I’m back! I lost my way a little bit, but please forgive me. You see, when I started The British Maple, it was a means of sharing my ramblings (and mishaps) with anyone who was willing to listen. Continue reading
No one will dread this weekend more than parents of toddlers. Why? Because around 100 years ago some cockwomble of a man decided it was a good idea to change time…TWICE A YEAR!
As I write this I am on my third cup of coffee having been up for FIVE hours (and it’s only 9:45am) so, as you can imagine, this will inevitably be a sleep-deprived, caffeine-fuelled, angry-mama rant of a post (with some vaguely interesting facts spattered amongst the expletives). Continue reading
We’ve all seen the endless ‘how to’ articles, passively patronising childless young professionals about newborn gifts and scaring the shit out of sleep-deprived new mums with lists about how not to mess up your kid from day one.
Well let’s turn it on its head. This is The British Maple’s definitive guide on how to be friends with people WITHOUT kids. Continue reading
Let me set the scene for you. On Saturday I popped to Waitrose (ooh-err!) to pick up some basics (purple-sprouting broccoli, quinoa blah, blah and organic cornfed, halibut poisson doits, as you do).
Upon returning to my car I saw a security guard hovering nearby. Now, as a self-confessed soft-arse, my first thought was ‘what did I do wrong‘; but on this occasion I was the victim of someone else’s wrongness. It turned out a bloke had dragged his trolley down the side of my car, leaving a fabulous scratch and several supporting scuffs. Continue reading
Some of you know me, some of you don’t! Here’s everything you didn’t know: Continue reading
As the autumnal sun warmed us all up this afternoon, I couldn’t help but notice how beautiful Nanny and Grandad’s garden looked. Yes, there are a few flowers on their last legs, ready to sleep for the winter but others are enjoying their swan song.
Sorry for the lame attempt at arty shots (I only tend to snap things that don’t move) but I thought it would be nice to share the last snippets of summer before the long nights draw in. Continue reading
Yesterday I was struck down by the lesser-known illness, Mumfluenza. Many people are familiar with the more common strain Manfluenza (Man Flu), but Mumfluenza (Mum Flu) is equally as rife.
As we approach the Mumfluenza season, here is a brief low-down for your records: Continue reading
Oooh…did that click-bait title catch your attention?! Of course I haven’t actually won an actual award but I have been invited to take part in my first blogosphere blog challenge (well, she was emotionally coerced into inviting me!)
The Sunshine Blogger Award has been graciously awarded to me by Cécile, the brains and beauty behind the awesome The French Mummy blog. Awarded, in her humble opinion, to people who deserve an award so I am basking in the (undeserving) glory of her niceness – yay me!!
Before I begin my challenge, I apologise to my non-blogging readers for going all bloggy on you (I think I’ve done pretty well to avoid doing so, up to now!) but this is too good a challenge to pass up.
Although many of you know a lot about me, this will give you a better insight into the inner workings (or not-workings) of The British Maple’s mind!
*The rules for the challenge are at the end of this post.*
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Thanks again for the award The Frenchie Mummy Blog, I really enjoyed completing it. x
I am totally punching above my weight with some of my blogging BFFs (so much so they don’t even know they are my blogging BFFs haha) I will nominate them anyway because we all started somewhere! My Sunshine Blogger nominees are:
Jean at The Self-Styled Life
Liv at eenie meenie miney mum
Hannah at Hippy Happy Han
Louisa at Sweet Louisa Keo
The rules:
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