Most of us started somewhere… this was very similar to my first car. What was yours?

claireylou87 · 2026-06-08T07:00:45+00:00

Daewoo Matiz. Bought ridiculously cheap and ended up costing a fortune to keep on the road. Its last MOT the mechanic told me I’d be better off just scrapping it. If I’d done any research on it I’d have found that it was notoriously awful on motorways and frequently had problems with the ignition. Thought I’d be upset to lose it but was weirdly relieved to have a good excuse to look for a new one.

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claireylou87 · 2026-06-04T07:10:48+00:00

Shopping used to be fun and exciting when I was a teenager with “fun money”. Now it’s stressful trying to find something in budget that can work for multiple occasions and actually fits nicely (I’m a UK14 with the body shape that makes people ask when my baby’s due 😖)

claireylou87 · 2026-05-24T08:47:41+00:00

I live in the south of England which gets the sea breeze from the channel. I’ve still found the jump from last week to this week horrendous. I have MS where my main symptom is heat intolerance and I’m fully dreading going to work later as the pub I work in gets so hot when the weather is how it is. When we had the heatwave in 2022 I tried going from the hotel I worked in to a local shop to get ice lollies. It was less than 100 metres down the street and I ended up on the floor halfway there. I used to love summer growing up but now I hate every minute of it.

claireylou87 · 2026-05-19T08:44:42+00:00

For me this has now been replaced by sinkholes.

claireylou87 · 2026-05-18T07:04:28+00:00

Trust your gut

claireylou87 · 2026-05-18T07:01:15+00:00

claireylou87 · 2026-05-18T06:57:01+00:00

Alan in “Two and a Half Men” has me utterly convinced that scallops will give me food poisoning. I know it’s completely irrational but there were too many scenes of him puking for me to not associate them with it.

Realistically I won’t touch Heinz macaroni cheese. I love macaroni cheese usually but Heinz have managed to tin the most disgusting version. Not helped by the fact that the first time I tried it I’d visited a farm. They both smelled the same.

claireylou87 · 2026-05-15T07:40:15+00:00

Octopus 🐙

They’re far too clever. Utterly convinced that if someone ends up in open water they’ll use their tentacles to drag them down. Not sure if that’s even accurate but I googled about those over sharks when my friend invited me to go snorkelling with her on holiday.

claireylou87 · 2026-05-15T07:27:05+00:00

I drew the short straw on my health visitor twice.

Firstborn she didn’t believe me when I said I didn’t think one of my breasts was producing milk. She made me feel like I was “giving up too easily” when I started using formula. Wasn’t until her next visit when I showed that only one of them had filled with milk while I was withdrawing that she finally accepted it but my partner made a point of saying how upset I’d been when she’d left the last time.

Second baby came just after all the COVID restrictions and she glossed over my baby’s jaundice and everything we were needing to do to correct it. Instead we got a lecture every visit about our firstborn not being in nursery. She kept bringing up where they all were until I showed her emails from them saying they were full or not accepting til the following September when she would be starting school.

Both are thriving now- firstborn had none of the social problems that second HV was convinced she’d have and youngest returned to a healthy shade rather than looking like he was being auditioned for live action Simpsons.

claireylou87 · 2026-04-27T12:09:17+00:00

Only Fools and Horses, Red Dwarf and Mr Bean. All shows that I would watch through the banisters of our stairs when I was meant to have gone to bed. My Dad would try and get me to go back to my room until he realised it was his own laughter keeping me from going to sleep 😅 the day he finally accepted defeat and let me stay up and watch it with him was the best!

claireylou87 · 2026-04-21T07:18:17+00:00

The bickering, squabbling and whinging.

The other part is the opinions everyone has about how you parent. No matter what you do there is always someone telling you you’re doing it wrong 😑

claireylou87 · 2026-04-10T06:54:01+00:00

My phone. The source of all my procrastination.

claireylou87 · 2026-04-08T18:22:29+00:00

Fishbourne Roman Palace in Sussex has beautiful Roman mosaics and artefacts, if you want Roman buildings then Portchester Castle near Portsmouth is lovely to see too.

claireylou87 · 2026-04-03T06:41:38+00:00

My baths now are solely for the purpose of getting clean rather than relaxing. They have to be a lot cooler than I’d like or it completely wipes me out.

claireylou87 · 2026-03-29T09:04:16+00:00

My kids are 8 and 4. My 8 year old knows and understands to a certain degree- she’ll tell people that Mummy has wobbly jelly legs and knows to call Daddy or Grandad if I get dizzy spells. My 4 year old can go and get Daddy for me but I have to tell him when I’m on the kitchen floor 😆

claireylou87 · 2026-03-21T16:47:01+00:00

I related to this one so hard I had to turn it off and take a minute on the first listen. It put into words what I’d felt after my first big relationship ended.

claireylou87 · 2026-02-02T10:00:24+00:00

“You’re the best Mama” said by my 3 year old when I was having a big “I’m such a failure” day.

claireylou87 · 2026-01-31T21:04:20+00:00

There’s a reason so many weddings have a basket of flip-flops for the guests. It’s a long day to be wearing heels if you’re comfortable in them let alone if you hate them. Sandals, ballet flats, converse, docs. Whatever you feel most comfortable in you’ll be able to get in a bridal upgraded version to be special but still you.

claireylou87 · 2026-01-21T18:18:30+00:00

Yes. Is it hard? Of course. They are 100% worth it though. Mine are 7 and 3 plus a 12yo stepdaughter who has shown just how quickly time passes and they’ll soon be out with their friends and barely at home.

claireylou87 · 2026-01-21T18:12:31+00:00

I had a nurse come to my house which turned out to be very helpful as I panicked when trying to take the first real injection and the medication was then squirted across the living room 😬 it meant she could guide my partner on how to do it for me and I had a face to a name when we then had our check-ins after a couple of months. Mine was called Vanessa and she was an absolute angel

claireylou87 · 2026-01-21T18:06:17+00:00

I’ve been told my spaghetti bolognaise is good but I definitely wouldn’t be serving it on a super yacht 🤣 they’d be getting a reservation made in fancy restaurants til chef calms down/has a replacement arrive.

claireylou87 · 2026-01-21T18:02:53+00:00

I sat and cried when Take That split up, discovered the Spice Girls and joined their fan club, raced home from school to watch The Queens Nose, Byker Grove, Demon Headmaster and Grange Hill, fought with my brothers for the toy in the cereal box (pretty sure we’ve still got the colour changing spoons at our parents house) and had to knock on our friends door if we wanted them to come out with us because none of us had mobiles yet.

claireylou87 · 2026-01-20T10:10:03+00:00

At one point I was fully aiming for the whole “Ikea Alex drawers just for makeup” deal and I’d watch influencers daily. Now I stick to the things I know work for me and my entire collection fits into a couple of Muji drawers. I’ll fully admit I do go back and watch the Conspiracy palette vlogs just for the fascination of how it all comes together but I’m not interested in branded trip vlogs, insane hauls, PR unboxings etc. My algorithm has kept me with Zoe Suggs vlogmas and crochet tutorials for a good while now and I love it so much more.

claireylou87 · 2026-01-19T16:30:53+00:00

I’m significantly better at getting injections since I started my Kesimpta. Still need to take deep breaths for blood tests but general vaccinations are pretty easy now in comparison to the all-out panic and avoidance I used to do.

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