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Live Below The Line – Day 1 #livebelowtheline

So today is the first day of my challenge. I’m feeling quite good about it at the minute, not sure how that will change throughout the week though!  Breakfast – 10.15am: 50g porridge = 4p 1/2 pint tap water = free 1/3 banana = 4p TOTAL = 8p I usually always make porridge with milk, or half milk half water, but today I had to make it all with water. I am going to be honest, I couldn’t finish it. Towards the end the taste of water was just too much and I started feeling sick. 1/3 of a banana …

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Pop ‘N’ Grow Charity Tweet Day

Pop ‘N’ Grow is an amazing charity who supply clothing to premature babies and seriously ill children. Today they will be trying to raise awareness on Twitter on “Tweet for Pop ‘N’ Grow Day”, so if you’re about and able to tweet, please tweet the following message between 11am-1pm today: #PopNGrow Free Clothing For Prems & Sick Kids @Pop_N_Grow #Charity  You can find their amazing work on the website here and on Facebook.

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Here we go again…

So little man is ill. Again. This is the third time (fourth, if you count his awful MMR reaction) since his birthday. The first one was his ear infection, then he had gastroenteritis, then of course his MMR reaction, and now he has a chest infection & virus. He started with a slight cough on Friday night, then by Saturday his breathing had gotten a bit heavy and wheezy too. His temperature was also 38.5. We gave him Calpol hoping it would stop it before it got any worse, but by Sunday morning it hadn’t improved, and he was sleeping …