sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Feb 6, 2012, 7:08 pm
The lovely Kate at Kate on Thin Ice has set up a challenge for bloggers who want raise awareness of breast cancer and Breakthrough Breast Cancer's campaign to fight the disease. She wants to find 90 bloggers who will write 90 words about an important woman in their lives and I have decided to join t...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Feb 6, 2012, 1:30 pm
I had my hair done on Friday and had a very lucky escape ... I was sitting in the chair, chatting away to my lovely hairdresser, having my highlights done ( Yes ... I know its a shock, but I am not an entirely natural blonde ...) Well, suddenly, from nowhere, the hairdresser's comb stabbed me in the...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jan 30, 2012, 4:30 pm
I posted a little while ago about having to bite my tongue and not tell someone how I felt about them. I am not a person who likes confrontation and I will avoid it if possible, but when I do eventually decide that the time has come to speak up ... I do. I have had two occasions recently where I ha...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jan 27, 2012, 11:29 am
This is a confession. It has been a lifetime since I confessed to anyone. This morning as I drove to work my throat was practically bleeding from screaming at my eldest son. Bleeding... I heard him, the other day, on the phone planning a sickie and when he started to tell me he felt ill last night I...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jan 21, 2012, 11:11 am
I have two sons. Ever since they were born I have tried to create a magical world for them when it comes to Christmas, wobbly teeth, Easter. I wanted them to feel the same way I did, when I was little, about Father Christmas, fairies ... All went swimmingly for a long time. Each Christmas we would r...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jan 17, 2012, 5:44 pm
Ok - I know that this isn't one of my most glamorous posts ... after all nobody wants to admit that they wake up in the middle of the night feeling like a pig in a sauna, but sometimes you just have to share ... Not me!!! It started about two years ago now. I would go a bit red for no reason at all...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jan 14, 2012, 4:49 pm
There are times when you just get afeeling about a book when you read the bumph on the back cover. When I read theblurb about Shirley Mihoko Hairston’s novel TheSilk Box I knew that I had to read it and I hoped that it would live up tomy expectations. I am extremely happy to be able to say that it...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jan 12, 2012, 11:26 am
My house is currently filled with the soft scent of fresh paint. My decorator is an absolute star and I am so glad that I managed to persuade my husband to get someone in to decorate rather than do it himself. You will be relieved to know that since I last wrote life is looking much rosier! My essay...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jan 9, 2012, 3:39 pm
Right, now call me a hypocrite if you will and, to be honest, I probably am ... but having extolled the virtues of positivity like some sanctimonious ... well, positive person ... I now see that most of my 2012 posts have been moans. I plan to continue in this vein with the following post, so please...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jan 8, 2012, 11:29 am
Oh my goodness, but I love this!! I hope you do too ...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jan 6, 2012, 11:19 am
I am attending a course at the moment and am off work for a little while so that I can go to said course. Yesterday I, and the other people on this course, were sent home because of various problems, but we were told to phone back later to check an answer machine message which would tell us whether ...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jan 2, 2012, 2:41 pm
Happy New Year to everyone out there in Blogging Land!! I hope that you all have a great 2012 filled with health and happiness. None of us knows what the future will bring  - I just hope that most of it for the majority of us is happy. Some of it, I suppose depends on our own view of life.I am pret...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Dec 26, 2011, 9:16 am
I hope as you read this that you have had a good Christmas. Its a funny old time of year isn't it? So much preparation, so many different ways of celebrating, so many arguments, so many special moments. Its a time when everything is magnified in our lives and each little irritation seems greater, ea...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Dec 20, 2011, 3:40 pm
I went Christmas shopping with my son yesterday & we stopped off for a bit of lunch at a fast food place. As we sat there together eating our food I noticed a man a couple of tables over.He was balding, with untidy grey hair and I noticed his hands were dirty. As I looked more closely ( trying not t...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Nov 2, 2011, 1:00 pm
... sure there must be people who do earn money from blogging - maybe from sponsored posts, reviews and so on, ... with the odd tip on how to do something.Blogging is a kind of therapy for me! I ... is it possible to make lots of money from blogging? I would say probably not and certainly not w...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Nov 1, 2011, 12:34 pm
Last night we indulged in Halloween with friends and family. The boys and our neighbours made their own costumes from clothes we had around the place and I got out my face paints. We also carved the giant pumpkin we grew on our allotment! I had forgotten just how much I love face painting! I used to...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 30, 2011, 12:04 pm
It seems like a dream to me now ... a nightmare time muffled in darkness and despair. It should have been a time of joy and light and love, but it wasn't and I was ashamed. Update: I am really sorry, but I have deleted the rest of this post. I have never done this before, but I just don't feel I can...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 29, 2011, 8:26 am
I have just got home from a morning's campaigning at a local shopping parade. Part of having older children now means that I have got my life back. I don't mean that in a horrible way, but really ... how lovely is it to be able to say "I'm just off up to the allotment for an hour" or "I'm going out ...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 28, 2011, 9:08 am
About 18 months ago I joined BritMums - a parenting website and forum - and I have dipped in and out since then. This week, however, I had time to have a really good delve into their revamped site and I was not disappointed! Following a veritable of flurry of activity on my behalf, including my firs...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 27, 2011, 11:30 am
For my gorgeous husband - because this sums up how I feel about you. Sarah x
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 25, 2011, 6:48 am
As I sat in my kitchen attempting to write an essay on Children's Literature this morning I was interrupted regularly by the rumbumptious banging of my two sons playing the x box in the next room. That may not be a real word but it describes their behaviour well. Now at the ages of 12 and 13 they ar...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 22, 2011, 11:33 am
At this very moment my jaw and teeth are aching. The reason for this is because I am so tense that my jaw is permanently clamped shut unless I make a conscious effort to stop it. I keep getting headaches because of both my jaw and my shoulders which are tight and nestled up around my ears most of th...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 21, 2011, 9:34 am
I have just arrived home after the first half term of the year and I am ready for some rest and relaxation. It is what it is, but this year does not look like its going to be an easy one full of joy and laughter at work! Still - I'm in a job and there is always the hope that the Euro Millions will c...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 20, 2011, 3:58 pm
I have noticed more and more over the last few years that the children I work with are often incapable of sitting in a chair properly. I know ... my life could be considered a little sad. But I think I have stumbled upon a link. Hear me out... The thing is ... fewer and fewer families sit down to ea...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 19, 2011, 5:06 pm
My house is at the bottom of a big hill.To go into the town you have to go up the hill. To walk into town is rather nice - through leafy tree lined ways - and it takes about 25 minutes, but that hill is a killer. I noticed, not long ago, that a new bench had been placed at the top of the hill and on...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 17, 2011, 1:27 pm
I have so much to do and so little desire to do it. I have made a list of things, big and small, that I really need to get done. Plan lesson for ThursdayWrite up feedback about RE courseWrite 2000 word essaySort out flashcard listTidy allotmentCut down runner beansPlant garlicRead more of course boo...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 14, 2011, 3:00 am
My pillows are currently lying on my bed in a state of pathetic flatness. Their limp apathy is something that is beginning to offend me and I am plan to rectify the situation. I have always been ... I am a little reluctant to admit this ... a tad on the tight side when it comes to spending money on ...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 5, 2011, 12:08 pm
Autumn is coming and I need to put the allotment to bed. Before I can do this though I need to have a compost bin for all my green stuff. I scrounged some pallets for free some time ago and this weekend I managed to get my husband ( long suffering as he is ) to help me make them. When I say 'help me...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 4, 2011, 7:06 pm
My family of 2 boys and a husband breathed a collective groan tonight as I insisted that the new series of America's Next Top Model be taped. Why they are groaning I really don't know - its not as though I make them watch my telly. Right now I am enjoying the thrills of ANTM ( see above ), X Factor,...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 3, 2011, 6:06 pm
This Saturday I will be attending the first tutorial of my new course. I am studying EA300 with the Open University and this course will be my final one before I can finally pick up my degree. EA300 is the study of Children's Literature. As is usual with these things I am filled with a mixture of ex...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 2, 2011, 5:02 pm
I know I harp on about the old allotment, but I wanted to share with you my enormous pumpkin!! Here it is, rescued from the plot and nestling on my kitchen table next to an empty wine bottle ( so you can realise scale!!) and then ... a picture of me next to it. I am not looking at my best as I am j...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Oct 1, 2011, 11:41 am
I went to a quiz last night. I am a bit of a fan of quizzes being very competitive and strangely full of useless information. Sometimes it takes a little while for other team members to realise this as being small blonde and a big fan of lip gloss some people seem to think, initially that I am nice,...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Sep 29, 2011, 12:35 pm
You may have noticed the book I am reading at the moment. You may not have noticed, but bear with me! My friend at work lent it to me. I have only just started it, but already it is a book that is hard to put down. It is called Multicoloured Mayhem and its by Jacqui Jackson. If you click on my GoodR...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Sep 28, 2011, 8:44 am
It is a gloriously sunny day outside so I am not going to write for long. After all, living in England you do have to make the most of any hint of warm weather. I am about to head off to the allotment and do a bit of weeding. Things are not too bad, but I like to keep the place tidy. There is a huge...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Sep 24, 2011, 11:45 am
A little while ago I wrote a review of Now:Embracing the Present Moment by Richard Singer. I was thrilled when the author himself contacted me to ask me if I would write a review of the third edition of his book Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds:Wisdom and Enlightenment of the Past and Present....
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Sep 17, 2011, 4:53 pm
I went on a training course the other day and it was brilliant. It was all about supporting primary school age children with maths. Now, although my first job involved using maths ( lots of mental arithmetic ) I hated maths at school. It was like someone pulled up a big grey curtain infront of me ...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Sep 14, 2011, 5:58 pm
When we were travelling back through France from our holiday my husband reached into our box of CDs and plucked one without looking to put in the player in the car.It turned out to be a Horrible Histories CD about the First World War. As we drove along we listened to the story of the war and we real...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Sep 13, 2011, 4:53 pm
I always promised myself that when my youngest went to Secondary school I would start cycling to work. I work about 1 or 2 miles from home and it always seemed like a good idea, but when I was taking my son to school it was too complicated. So, last week he started at his Secondary school, walking t...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Sep 10, 2011, 1:14 pm
My life seems to revolve, these days, around my vegetables. My apologies to those of you who have no interest in either fruit or veg!!! I am just loving the satisfaction of seeing something that is completely under my control and to actually eat things that I have planted is amazing. I am really gra...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Sep 6, 2011, 4:28 pm
When I first started my allotment I dreamed that I would have gravel pathways ... and this week it came to pass. At least now I have some gravel on my paths and I am bery happy!
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Sep 1, 2011, 7:14 pm
Oooer ... I was going to post about my latest allotment stuff, but I have been hijacked by the new blogger layout. How swish! So far I like it ... Anyway, before I ramble on about the allotment I can tell you that I went to Zumba tonight. Its my 3rd time and I am getting slightly more co-ordinated e...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Aug 25, 2011, 7:01 pm
I know I go on about my allotment, but I am proud of it ... This Autumn the local council is holding an Allotment Show. People can come along and enter their produce into competitions. I am going to enter 2 of the competitions - Then and Now, which is a photographic competition showing the differenc...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Aug 24, 2011, 4:32 pm
My son is currently not talking to me. The reason is this ... He wants to buy Blood Diamond James Bond for the X Box. It is a game and its certificate is 16. My son is 11, therefore he is not getting it. I think that's fair enough, don't you? As I have explained to him at great length and with great...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Aug 23, 2011, 7:29 am
I look at my allotment and I cannot quite believe that almost a year ago it looked like this ... That first day I had in my head the way I wanted it to look, but I didn't know if I had the skills to achieve the picture in my head. It turns out that I  had some of the skills, but the best thing was...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Aug 20, 2011, 1:29 pm
We arrived home from our holidays last Sunday and I went over to the allotment to see how everything was doing. Well ... you would not believe how everything has grown!! My pumpkins have taken over like triffids, climbing up and across everything they can find. I had to really cut some of them back....
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Aug 19, 2011, 1:30 pm
Having just about finished my holiday washing pile I am now in a position to show you my holiday photos. Do you fancy having a look? Do you have a few minutes to browse through some pics of the Charente and the Dordogne?If so, pull up a chair, sort yourself a cup of coffee or a glass of vino and hav...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Aug 16, 2011, 9:25 am
Well, I'm back. We have just spent two weeks in France, first at my cousin's house near Bordeaux and then near Sarlat in the Dordogne. Both these places are very beautiful, but please, if I ever mention to you that we are planning on driving down there for a two week summer holiday will you please j...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jul 31, 2011, 5:45 pm
In 2007 I began to train for the London Marathon. I am not a natural athlete so the training was hard. As I started to run longer and longer distances I found myself breaking them up into manageable chunks in my mind and I focussed on NOW. All I allowed myself to think about was the NOW – if I am ...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jul 27, 2011, 6:41 am
The summer holidays are upon us and although I do realise how lucky I am to have the luxury of 6 weeks paid holiday in one big glorious chunk I find myself feeling a bit strange. Now don't worry. I don't expect any of you to feel any sympathy for me. After all why should you feel sympathy for a woma...
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sarah W. posted an article on The secret life of an unknown housewife - Jul 19, 2011, 5:44 pm
Since May half term I have been helping to run a gardening club at my work. Each week we have met, planted lettuces, herbs, marigolds, sunflowers, tomatoes ... Between us we have taught the children about planting and weeding, watering and caring for the plants. They have enthusiastically pinched ou...
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