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There will be dog pics. Occasional craft / baking / design / pop culture references, usual mid-40s UK-based parent stuff. Used to be cultured. Now happy watching MAFSAU. Solidarity, primary school mums. ✊🏻
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A birthday slice of lasagna, a freebie side of foccaccia (plus salad not in shot) and a Campari Spritz. Nobody does it better than the Italians. 🇮🇹

Heidi, just checking in to Blue Sky. #dogsofbluesky

What fresh hell is this

Heidi looks as though she’s about to need an ashtray. #dogsofbluesky

Been bugging me! Who does Francesca / Frankie remind me of? Apparently it’s Paula Wilcox, back in the 70s/80s. #thetraitors #traitorsuk

Hallway afternoon light. (It’s briefly tidy pre-onslaught of bags, coats, water bottles, shoes and crumpled bump notes).

Start as you mean to go on, Juanita.

Found Heidi sunbathing on my son’s bed earlier. She has January sussed a lot better than I do. #dogsofbluesky

Not quite the same breed, but I know what Easter egg I’ll be getting for the kids (albeit in a few months - I mean, it… it is still January right?) #dogsofbluesky

Heidi’s combatting the January blues with her favourite home pastime: squirrel patrol. She has an excellent garden vantage point from her chaise longue. (Do we… do we spoil her?) #dogsofbluesky

Apparently this is what I bought last year in Tesco. It tracks, but also, it… lacks.

Christmas has left the building (well, gone up to the loft). The house still has cosy areas, but I think Heidi is missing the tree. #dogsofbluesky

The Cosmetics to Go sales catalogue, July 1994. Pre-cursor to Lush. As a teenager, I absolutely loved it.

A pause in the de-Christmassing of the house to enjoy air fryer s’mores, made by the kids. Marshmallows, chocolate chips & meringue. Sugar crash incoming.

Only a sprinkling of snow here this morning, but just enough for some snow-sculpting fun with the kids.

Grateful for the rooms I didn’t decorate for Christmas.

Fully invested in The Traitors, having never watched it before. The giant barber with the 90s haircut! The Sugababes tribute act Traitors (albeit now a duo rather than trio)! Minah is brilliant & truly playing the game; feeling very sorry for Kas who seems lovely. Linda is a liability. It’s so good!

It’s the obligatory de-Christmassing weekend, if tradition is to be upheld. For now, all the fairy lights are still on and the tree is still bedecked. It’s so magically cosy. Bleak midwinter outside. Wonder why we don’t keep decorations up til the end of February.

Smashed a snowglobe (while hoovering; that’ll teach me). It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Less Like Christmas.

Have now resumed normal diet, having gone full Very Hungry Caterpillar and eaten the entire Christmassy food contents of my house (plus my parents’ house, plus my in-laws’ house) over the past two weeks. Currently in the chrysalis phase. Hoping I shall emerge a beautiful butterfly at some point.🦋 🤞🏻

Heidi is in her hibernation phase. As are we. #dogsofbluesky

New Year’s Day traditions. Anyone else open the back door and front door simultaneously, to let the old year out and new year in? It was pretty epic this morning, a hefty gust of wind rattled the fairy lights in the hallway and the Christmas tree in the living room visibly bristled. Greetings, 2025.

A new gadget and a new culinary era dawns in our house. (Fashionably late to the air fryer party). Entering… THE MEGAZONE.

Post-Christmas Heidi. Hard relate. #dogsofbluesky

Salad and vegetables are making their way into our kitchen fridge. However so is cheesecake and salmon en croute. Balanced diet and all that.

Took Heidi on a light trail, her personal highlights were seeing a real cat (worth the entrance fee alone, in her opinion) and being given an enormous bratwurst (almost bigger than her body) for free. We let her have a quarter of it; she probably felt we were underestimating her. #dogsofbluesky