“5 wines worth swigging” on Christmas Day

5 wines for Christmas Day

If my true love wrote the 12 days of Christmas, there would definitely be wine in there somewhere! So to rectify this on the fifth day of Christmas I am giving you “Five wines worth swigging”. Much better than five golden rings or five fat poaka (Maori for pigs), in the Kiwi version ;).

{Crash Challenge} 5 tips for cleaning your BBQ

BBQ in a shameful state

Alternatively titled, Laugh At My Expense . . . Looking to get your BBQ ready for summer?  Heed my warning, I mean, check out my crash challenge and really helpful tips! 1. Go and pick up your BBQ from your inlaws . . . where it has been sitting since last Summer.  I can highly [...]

{House Keeping} My 3 secret weapons in natural cleaning

Goodbye-Detergent-Scrubbing-Cloth

Do you have your fail safe favourite cleaning aids?  I do!  Here I’m going to let you in on my 3 secret cleaning weapons in the war against monotonous, smelly cleaning duties ;)  I’m all for natural cleaning products and these little helpers are some of the best solutions I’ve found.

{Take Care} My pelvic floor injury – how I broke my lady bits

Slippery when wet sign

Yes, that’s right, I’m going to tell you a story about how I broke my lady bits.  This could have been a Laugh At My Expense story, but as it turns out, I didn’t find it very funny. The reason I’m telling you this story (and risking grossing out my Dad) is that I consider [...]

Tips for housework in a hurry!

Housework tips

Brought to you by . . . Crash Test Mummy’s Guide to Everything for the Exhausted, the Desperate & the Downright Distracted . . . with thanks to contributions from the Crash Test Community Your MIL/Mother/Gran/New friend has called to say they are in the area and will pop in to visit.  They’ll be there [...]