Goodbyes of any kind make me ridiculously sad because I’m a sentimental sap who just cried while watching Downton Abbey. Thanks for all the great articles over the years, lots of love, a lurker (I'm not as deranged/crazy as il coming across here, I promise)

I’m planning on buying myself a stack of books as a Christmas present to myself, so I’ll stick that in the list!

Funnily enough I just finished reading Stardust for the first time, so different from the movie, but oh so good. My dad and I both adore Gaiman

I had to boot him off after he stuck both sets of claws into my right boob while I screeched my head off

I hope you like it as much as three(!) generations of my family has/does. My granny used to read it to me and point out all the things she remembered about her life when she was little that she saw in the illustrations.

Peepo! By Janet and Allen Ahlburg, I still have my copy from when my sister and I were babies

Five Minutes Peace is the book I always gift, more for the parents than the kids really. It’s part of a series centering around the Large family and it’s one that I never get sick of reading to my various charges and petite relatives. I always give Peepo! By Janet and Allen Ahlburg to small babies/toddlers, the…

My cat is currently residing on my collarbones, dude has me owned

It’s held up amazingly well. I’ve dragged it around most of continental Europe with me, it’s gone through several damp, rainy Irish winters and I one fell down a flight of stairs with it attached to my body. A+ for the bag makers of years gone by.

About three years ago I picked up a coach satchel at a vintage fair for €40. Got home and did a google on the brand (it wasn’t that big here at the time). After looking at the prices I rang all my friends to brag about my bargain hunting abilities and also to ask how the hell I was supposed to wear said satchel (it…

I forgot to clarify that this is in Ireland! So the college fees are very, very different over here. I also still live at home so I pay lower rent (as most around here do) so the nannying provides really well given my circumstances.

I’m a part time nanny at the weekend and you hit the nail on the head. I’m in college full time during the week, so this job pays my way. If the dad in the family came onto me I would run as fast as I possibly could. He’s a nice guy but I have minus interest in him or in sleeping with my boss in general. They’re a…

You should see my hair currently. It’s bigger than my face and there’s probably about fifty stray Bobby pins hiding in it but I don't have time to wash it until later.Guess who’s wearing a crown braid today?

Oh my god! My mother is the same about my hair. There is a reason I don’t brush it, don’t cut it past my collarbone, don’t wash it more than twice a week or use a blow dryer. Because I look like the female version of Tarzan if any of these things happen Which nobody wants to see, trust me

I feel like I'm about to go full on monogrammed thermos after hearing this news

The nightgown needs some fancy pancy lace or eyelet or something. If I was going to wear a nightgown I would also like a matching robe/kimono so I could waft around like Elizabeth Taylor/ a general princess

You had me at made for tv Christmas movie

Edited to correct: *That I have a future in*

Tà me ar muin na muice lads!

Please, please, please do! The weather is shit so there’s nothing better to do than watch True Movies and soak in all the Drama! And True Love! And Medical Crises! And Mis-understandings!! My mum jokes that u have a furtive in writing terrible to shows/ movies but now I think I should just have a blog dedicated to…