Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
United Kingdom
Joined myLot 9 years ago
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
5 Jun 20
... fun thing you did before lockdown?
For me it was a cinema trip with my 9 year old, we went to see Sonic and for a McDonalds afterwards. It was just us two as the trip was a belated birthday treat (he'd waited until a film...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
5 Jun 20
I adore butterflies, one of the nicer things about this lockdown is the fact I've been spending more time than usual in the garden. Last year I planted a couple of butterfly bushes and now they're starting to encourage...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
7 Mar 18
You know what annoys me about modern books? The fact that so many of them are parts of series of books and this isn't always made clear on the cover of the book!
See, I buy the majority of my books in charity shops - I read such...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
6 Mar 18
OK, so where do I stand with writing articles on MyLot about other 'money making' sites?
Is this allowed?
I have a few I've started using this year and payments have just started coming though so thought it would be nice to...
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3 people
Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
5 Mar 18
It's been so, so cold here in the UK - we've had a major storm/snow system over us and the temperature has been blisteringly cold. The kids enjoyed the snow last week for around ten minutes then decided it was just too cold to...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
29 Nov 17
It's been quite a long time since I've been here, it's been a busy few months but a couple of things have happened that has drawn me back.
For starters my favourite writing site has just gone kaput - I heard about it this morning...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
31 May 17
My six year old son came home from school a few weeks ago with a sunflower he'd grown from seed. A great idea but unfortunately the tallish seedling didn't make it home in one piece, he was so disappointed that we decided we'd...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
2 Oct 16
We went out for lunch today as the kids have spent the weekend at their Nans, it was about time me and their dad treated ourselves to some 'us' time and while we didn't exactly push the boat out we did try a new place that has...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
18 Sep 16
While we've had lots of staycations in the UK, it has literally been years since we went abroad - four kids with big age gaps isn't exactly conductive to a family holiday, but tonight the decision was made that we'd take our...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
17 Aug 16
I know I sound like a real killjoy, but how long is left on the Olympic Games?!
I'm bored stiff with it, the news is so hyperactive about our (fairly respectable) rush of medals that you'd think nothing else was going on in the...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
6 Aug 16
I downloaded Pokemon Go on the day it was released here in the UK - my teen daughters had been checking the App Store every hour after hearing a rumour that it was about to be released and once they had it they nagged me until I...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
23 Jul 16
I was sitting with my iPad and absolutely nothing to do a few minutes ago so called Google up and typed in 'sick stars new' - it amuses me to see a certain variety of celebrity who can seemingly conjure up a serious illness for...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
16 Jul 16
While we were in Birmingham city centre some time ago I noticed a guy had taken over a couple of the old red phone boxes that are dotted around the city - he'd turned them into a kind of takeaway coffee kiosk which looked...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
13 Jul 16
I popped down to do some shopping a couple of days ago and noticed M&S had put a huge new poster up at the front of their store - I wasn't planning on shopping there that day but had a wander over as from a distance the poster...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
11 Jul 16
Ever since the EU referendum a couple of weeks ago the political situation here in England has been pretty tense. The most obvious sign of change came when our Prime Minister, David Cameron, resigned in pique after the referendum...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
10 Jul 16
I bought my first batch of Christmas presents last week, only a couple of bits for my youngest two, including a Lego Minecraft set for my son - when they were delivered I popped them straight into the downstairs cubby hole so the...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
9 Jul 16
We've had this gorgeous black and red bug in our garden for a few days, it's taken a liking to a huge new geranium plant we bought recently and has been back so many times it's almost starting to feel like a little wild pet!
It's...
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7 people
Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
7 Jul 16
I was driving with my daughter in the car a few days ago when I heard her getting a bit animated so looked over to see what had caught her attention - and what a fab spot she'd made!
Our post boxes in England are usually red, but...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
6 Jul 16
My seventeen year old daughter loves reading but as our local library has recently closed she's finding it harder to keep her bookcase stocked with a selection of reading material. I've been saying for a while that she should...
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Christina
@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
5 Jul 16
Today my youngest two were off school as the teachers were having a strike about something or other - it worked out quite well in terms of my nine year old as she had a 24 hour bug so wouldn't have been at school anyway.
My...
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