Funny

…how I spend most days with a million and one things to write about, and when I get 5 minutes to write them down my head empties and all I can think to write about is a single solitary “bugger.”

Holidaaaaaaaaay

In Wales this weekend – don’t miss me too much :)

Dairy Free

Excuse typos, blogging from my phone.

It’s now over a week since I went dairy free to see if it would improve Oliver’s mood / sleep / digestion. Since then:

# Oliver is sleeping better.
# We’ve not had any night-long screaming.
# We’re seeing an overall improvement in mood in general with things that would be usual triggers for grumpiness not having the same effect.

Of course I can’t definitely point to the exclusion of dairy definitely, we’ll have to do a reinclusion once the 6 weeks are up to see what happens.

I have to admit that it’s harder than I thought it would be. I don’t eat much cheese or drink milk so I thought that it’d be a breeze. Little did I know that EVERYTHING contains milk. Stock cubes, supposed non-dairy spreads, even a bottle of wine sat in my fridge door since January which I kept forgetting to chuck!

Still, I’m still here, and massive sugar cravings aside (from the lack of chocolate biscuits) I’m actually better for it having lost weight (if my belt is to be believed). And I have a few recipes up my sleeve and that’s good, right?

Testing

Just testing the WP android app.

Consolidation

I’m sat here with Isabel making noises in my face, a half-naked baby under my chair, two work projects several months behind for various reasons, another couple due to start any day now and an ever-increasing portfolio of websites in various stages of completion.

I’ve got a variety of blogs which are taking up time and space & with only 2.5 effective working hours in the day (when you factor everything I need to do in) I need to cut the cruft and focus on things that are going to earn me money. As such, some of my niche blogs will be merging into this one (where relevant). Projects too time consuming to work on properly (rev.iew.me springs to mind) will be found new owners and anything left over will be shut down.

(Unless anyone wants to do my work/pay my mortgage for me? ;))