A pocket of my life

So yesterday I went to an appointment that most women dread, the cervical cancer screening one, formally known as a smear test. I feel to myself that this is such an important one as it literally takes 10 minutes and could save your life. I also feel like a lot of women put this off and wanted to write a post to reassure women that its nothing to fear.  My appoint was a 2.20pm and I was out by 2.35pm, I was called into the room, and I'm not gonna lie I felt nervous, that is completely normal, its not the most pleasant thing when another person who is not your partner is near your lady parts. She went through a few questions and then we chatted which made me more relaxed, I think the nurse had been doing this for a while. after the questions it was time to get on with the actual check, I was asked to removed my bottom garments and lay on the table with my ankles together and knees apart. This makes it easier for them to see what they are doing, The best thing you can do is relax (as...

  So a lot of you have requested my cheese and potato pie recipe over on my meals of the week videos, this is a hairy bikers recipe with a little bit of a change as I read the recipe wrong the first time. It's such a simple recipe yet so tasty and could go with a fair few things, we personally use it with our  Honey pulled gammon  which accompanies it so well.  For this recipe you will need: 3 Medium Potatoes Grated cheddar cheese 1 slice of bread made into breadcrumbs Salt and pepper Butter for mashing Method: - Preheat the oven to 190oC/ gas mark 5 - Blend a slice of bread until it becomes bread crumbs - Boil your potatoes until ready to mash then mash as normal with butter - Add 2/3 of of your grated cheese in with the potatoes and mix well - Add half of you cheesy mash to an oven proof dish around cms round and flatten - Add around half of the left over grated cheese and top with the rest of the mash and flatted - Mix the rest of the cheese with the bread crumbs ...

What a strange 2 years it has been! Back in March 2020 when the world started to take action about Covid I was heavily pregnant with Olivia and scared as hell. I remember the rules changing before they closed the schools, back at the beginning of March was when it started to affect me, the maternity units decided that just one person would be aloud to attend a birth rather than two, this broke my heart as my Mother in law was meant be there to witness her grand daughter being born. The talk of covid was around the school like wild fire and many of us thought they should close the schools, especially with me being pregnant and just a week later Boris Johnson was announcing the closure, just for a few weeks....which ended in a lot more time than that. I feel very luckily for this time though as Lilly got to watch Olivia grow for so much more time that other siblings.  The lockdown was the strangest time ever, with only being allowed out for walks once a day and only going to the shop...