To those that know me, I’m often referred to as ‘you nutter’, ‘you hippy’ and sometimes ‘you tosspot!’ At the very least I consider myself to be a lateral thinker. My real name is Mandy – but I’ll probably reply to any of the above.

I like to see the lighter side of life, and I believe that nothing says ‘I love you’ to your family than blogging about how they made you laugh.

I am a South African mom living in the UK. As with most Saffa’s, my family and I started off our UK journey in Central London for a while and more recently we ditched that idea to move out to the country. It’s not so much the whole ‘country living’ thing that brought us here, but more the idea that our kids could experience more of an outdoorsy life. I guess when you’ve had an upbringing like ours in South Africa where you are more out than in, it seems wrong somehow to constantly have city all over you, most of the time. That being said I still adore London and everything about it, which is why we cannot bare to be too far away.

My family rocks! It’s been expanding of late and my husband laments the fact that the female/male balance of power shifted in my favour. In short, we have a teenage (nearly adult) son, a beautiful 6 year old girl and a feisty 3 year old girl. This of course means that a fair portion of this blog is going to be family orientated. I find it as funny as hell, mainly because my family makes me laugh. A lot.

If you have the time and the inclination, the past blogs deal a fair bit about being a working mom. To clarify, I mean that I was a mom who worked for someone else. I’m still a working mom but I work for myself now – an entirely different ball game, and one that requires a significant amount of juggling and the knowledge that very few hours in your life will ever be your own again.

If you like to leave feedback, you are welcome to comment on any of the posts, but if you like to chat I’m over on Twitter (@UK_Saffa) and love all the people I’ve been able to interact with there. I’ve recently started a Facebook page, so show some love and come join me there. Above all, have fun. I don’t do depressed and I don’t do bitch.

I hope you enjoy the read, it’s been a labour of love and I hope to be able to blog for years to come.

{Updated: 27th March 2017 – I don’t change much but my kids keep evolving…}