Not A Frumpy Mum

Not A Frumpy Mum March 31, 2015

The Bucket List {April}

I missed last months bucket list. I kept meaning to write one, but March was a bit of a crazy month and it was really hard to focus on anything whilst things were so much up in the air. I feel like April is a little bit of a fresh start for us, maybe it’s the promise of Spring. It’s the perfect time to create a bucket list. I didn’t do too well on Februarys list. I didn’t buy a sledge, although we haven’t had any more snow so I don’t feel bad about this one, but my car remains…

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Not A Frumpy Mum March 17, 2015

Friendships, Old And New

On New Years Eve I did something that had been playing around in my mind for a while. It made me sad (and still does a little), but I wanted to enter 2015 with a clean slate. I knew this year was going to be a tough one and I needed to be surrounded by people who were going to be on my side. So what did I do? I deleted three of my oldest friends from my phone and unfriended them on Facebook. There was no drama or confrontation, I simply clicked the delete button. It had taken me a…

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Not A Frumpy Mum March 4, 2015

An Early Mothers Day Treat

I have to admit I love flowers. Not quite to the same extent that Elton John does, but I do try to always have a few fresh ones in the house even if they are just a bunch of £1 daffodils from the supermarket. There’s something about seeing them that always makes me smile. My husband is not really one for buying flowers, I’m struggling to remember the last bunch he bought me, so it’s usually a little treat I get for myself. Last week Debenhams Flowers contacted me and asked if they could send me one of their Mothers…

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Not A Frumpy Mum February 25, 2015

Why I’ll Never Be Outstanding!

Once upon a time in the not to distant past I strived to be an outstanding teacher. I wanted to be the inspirational educator students told their future kids about. Okay, I was young and naive back then but it was where I aimed to be. After 13 years in the job I now know that, according to Ofsted criteria, I will never be outstanding and for the following reasons: 1. I don’t care about QMA (Quality Mark Assesment) sheets being completed in their books. I have taught them, marked their books, marked their tests, returned their tests with feedback…

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Not A Frumpy Mum February 11, 2015

A Romantic Proposal…eventually!

By his own admission my husband is not particularly romantic. That doesn’t mean he isn’t thoughtful, he is. He’ll de-ice my car in a morning and bring me a cup of tea in bed but he isn’t one for grand romantic gestures. Maybe that’s what made his proposal that little bit more special. In Spring 2007 my future husband had a phone call from one of his suppliers at work asking if we fancied an all expenses paid trip to Venice in the summer. Ermmm, let me think about that for a minute. Yes, we bit their arm off! Venice…

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