Can’t Cook, Will Cook: Chicken Stir Fry
This is a picture of Kale. I now eat shit like this. It’s green and cabbagey and smells like it came from the earth. That’s because it did. Beside it is a melon. I also […]
2015
Happy Birthday August: a year in photos
August Lily was born on a Friday. Today is Friday and even though it’s the 21st of August, and she was born on the 22nd, I can’t but help of think back to that day, […]
House of Cards: Five reasons we love to hate Frank Underwood
*Note, one TINY spoiler below Things have been very busy of late. TV watching has gone out the window. When the baby was smaller and I was on maternity leave, there was more time to […]
Do you see the history on your doorstep?
Last night I took part in the Walk & Talk series organised by the Old Drogheda Society and Drogheda Millmount Museum. Like all good things, I’d read about it on Facebook and was quick to […]
Why I quit breastfeeding to get my child to sleep at night
Helmet is on. I’m cowering at my computer, typing these words, ready to be criticised. I’ll have to whisper them, to convey my guilt. SSsshhh. I quit breastfeeding. And then I let my child cry […]
Wanted: A Respectable Woman to take charge of a Motherless Child
Wanted: A Respectable Woman to take charge of a Motherless Child Three Weeks Old to Bottle Feed it. That’s the last line I read before I left the library today. It was placed in a […]
LadyNicci blog nominated in Maternity and Infant Awards
You know it’s awards season when 1) There isn’t a long guna to be found in the shops 2) You can’t get a booking for a hair appointment and the baby is eating suspicious twirly […]
Can’t Cook, Will Cook: Cyanide and Happiness Cake
Our good friend SupaSambo celebrated her birthday this weekend. We’d be lost without Sambo. Not only is she baba’s Godmother, she’s also our babysitter extraordinaire, so we wanted to give her something special. While trying […]
Can’t Cook, Will Cook: Carrot, Coriander and Orange Soup
Today, Sunday, was the wettest, horribilest, I’m emigrating Sunday we might ever have known. You could hear the wind and rain pelting the window from the comfort of the early morning bed. Strangely, the weather […]
Five baby sleep positions: none of them good for Mum and Dad
rel=”nofollow”Nurofen contacted me recently to review their products. They couldn’t send me Nurofen for Children, as there’s a law against that (or at least an ethics issue – the same way you can’t give out […]
Why you really need to bring WaterWipes to a festival
The good people at WaterWipes issued a press release today to remind all those festival goers to pack a pack of wipes to ensure full beauty regime is kept up this summer. “Festival season can […]
I hate cats! Yes, but would you consider taking ours?
Right, we’ve come across a bit of a problem. A domestic problem. A cat problem. It’s nothing to do with the copious black hairs he leaves on our laundry or bedclothes, or constant mewing when […]
Review: TanOrganic self-tan, self-tanning oil and oil Arganic
It’s lashing. Really lashing. The type of rain that pours out of the sky; massive long droplets cascading down the roof, wet rods of miserable water, saturating the house, our garden and the poor farmers’ […]
A world abandoned: Ireland in the 19th century in photos
In February 2015 I set about researching a historical fiction novel set in the Boyne Valley, Ireland. The idea for the book struck me after reading a thesis essay by Gareth Yore on an eviction […]