Simple things are free the price of Love

The simplest of things for children cost nothing and evoke a lifetime of memories. You don't have to buy them expensive toys for them to love you. The simplest thing to do is to write them a note and perhaps leave it in their school pack lunch or if they are school dinners leave it on their pillow to find when they get home from school.


I witnessed a girl at school had been given a handwritten note(in her pack lunch)  by her dad and it said " I shall be thinking of you when I am at work eating my dinner'

A handwritten note shows love.

The joy it bought to their child was beautiful to behold I only wish the parent could have seen this. I encouraged the child to write a note for her dad. So in this fast paced world its the simplest of things that make us smile and help us know we are loved. And the same I hope can be said of you or I when our child or children give us a handwritten note.

How the Byron Cookie crumbles

I was luck enough to be sent a box of Byron Bay Cookies  for review who make delectable cookies from ingredients that are locally sourced and free range eggs.  It was like having all your Christmases rolled into one !

And some of the range is Gluten free- a win win situation for those who are coeliac and struggle to find a decent biscuit.

My son got straight  on to the Dotty one!

The biscuits come in a wide range of flavours,  I was sent White Chocolate Chip and Macadamia Nut, White Chocolate Chunk and Cranberry, Strawberry and Clotted Cream, Milk Chocolate Chunk, Fig and Pecan, Lemon Macademia Nut Shortbread, Sitcky Date and Ginger with Walnut and Dotty. 

 The gluten-free cookies come single wrapped like the other s to make sure that they don’t get contaminated by those naughty gluten cookies. They are distributed to cafes, to have with your take-away coffee and are also available in mini cookie bite boxes from larger Sainsbury’s stores and health food shops.


And the new cookie on the block is the single wrapped Gluten-Free cookie features pieces of real English strawberries, clotted cream and chunks of European white chocolate.
Like all Gluten-Free Byron Bay Cookies, the new gluten-free Strawberries & Clotted Cream cookie has been certified by Coeliac UK and approved by the Vegetarian Society.

The cookies are well basically huge  and would cause the Cookie Monster to go really really quiet for a long time!

J tried  the Dotty cookie appealed to him and to be honest its the first one I noticed too!.


Having tried a number of the cookies myself ( sorry Mr T it was just me and J ) one of my favourites was the Strawberry and Clotted Cream  they make the perfect mid morning or afternoon snack with a cup of tea.


There are so many different varieties to choose from and I still have one or two more to try, there's time yet for my favourite to change!
As long I had a decent size latte to go with these then I would gladly buy one from a coffee shop.

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A is for At- At Walker

I love children's innocence and how they just say things off the cuff and how right they are putting us adults to shame!.

Whilst in the middle of a Reception phonics lesson one day in the middle of a Phonics lessons the teacher asked the children " Name me something that starts with A"


To which of course you had the usual replies "Apple" ,"Ant" various children saying "A cat" or "A dog" ! etc. Though there had been this one little boy who had sat and listened and took it all in and piped up....


"A is for At- At walker"

AT - AT Walker

The teacher looked somewhat puzzled and was about to say no but I piped up " Well actually he is right"

So now you know A is for "At- AT walker " is it B for "Bobba Fett" ?

Domestic Violence

One should never suffer this but many women and men, children are scared to speak out on this. I often wonder to what ends my life would have been different I had spoken out as a child?

 I don't suppose I can't say much there is probably some legal ramifications if I do?


All I can say until someone tell me otherwise I suffered this growing up  not just from my father   suffered but at the hands of my Bi Polar mother also physically and verbally.

Will this put people off my blog .. unsure ... probably

Don't suffer in silence when it comes to Domestic Violence

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It's heart breaking when you parents divorce but when your father just wants to take your cat that's just odd, mind you it was a rather cleaver cat with loyalty of a dog unquestioning , so that's probably why it suited my father.

I have put this emotions into a box yet the box is always in danger of opening .. yes its been a few years since these events.

But please think on if you moan about your mum interfering with your daily life or your dad going on about the price of things again.

Do I regret my way of life now .. not really you have to get on with things don't you.

Project 366 day 3

Today I was meant to walk down the road and show you the lovely Countryside in my village/suburbia.

Not a chance you seen the freaky weather out there?

I just stood at my door and quickly took this lovely isn't it?

So perhaps tommorow .......