Mediocre Mum

Category: Turning 40

  • Top 40 Things to Do After 40

    Top 40 Things to do After your 40 I recently ran a competition that involved people telling me what their ‘Ultimate Thing to do after 40 was’.  I had nearly 300 suggestions so thought I’d compile a list of my favourite Top 40 Things to do After your 40.  I personally don’t have a bucket…

  • Struggling to read messages on your phone?

    I thought this was pure genius so I wanted to share it with you.  I’m now in my 40s and a few months ago I started noticing that I was struggling to read text messages on my iPhone.  I was having to progressively hold my phone farther and farther away until it came into focus. Oh…

  • Does Life Begin at 40? (Competition)

    To celebrate the release of ‘This is 40‘ by acclaimed writer, director and producer, Judd Apatow, we’re giving one of my readers a chance to win a copy of the DVD and a £100 voucher from Red Letter Days. The film itself, a ‘sort of’ sequel to Knocked Up,  follows a married couple played by Paul…

  • Is it a slippery slope?

    I panicked! When I was a teenager we used to take the piss out of my step father incessantly as he progressively held his newspaper farther and farther away so he could read it.  We used to joke that he needed Go Go Gadget Mechanical Arms. This has come back to bite me in the…

  • What a difference a word makes…..

    As many of you know I have recently turned 40 and I look a bit worse for wear. In an attempt, to stay looking younger, I’ve tried quite a few things from sticking 100s of tiny pins into my face to a mild chemical peal! However, I’m not willing to go under the knife…..yet! A…