Rosie Scribble

What Cybher meant to me

Inside the four walls of our house there’s a little room, and inside the four walls of that little room sits one table, one chair and a computer. It’s where I spend most of my day. 

I like it. It’s home, it feels safe, it keep me busy and when I get lonely I simply venture online and there’s a community there waiting for me. But sometimes it is too quiet and too isolating and feels more than a little claustrophobic.

So contrast that to a weekend in London, dining with friends in Chinatown, drinking in a hotel lobby, chatting, joking, sharing experiences and spending time with a truly inspiring community of women, and you can already see what Cybher meant to me. More than I could ever put into words. 

Together we are amazing

I may have missed something somewhere along the line, but a recent email from BritMums alerted me to a new campaign called Mums Stands Together aimed at encouraging mums to support and respect each other. There are further details on the The Mummy Whisperer’s BritMums post - Stop Slagging off Your Sister!  

The email from BritMums arrived in my inbox on my way home from the school run, and I have to admit to feeling a little deflated. I’d logged onto Twitter earlier that afternoon feeling isolated working from at home, and I’d been greeted with a fun and friendly community that gave me a much-needed boost, as Twitter often does.

So it came as a blow to discover there is a need for a campaign to bring mums together and support each other. I’d been completely unaware. 

Bird watching

On a recent photography course I suddenly found myself in the midst of a group of bird watchers who were able to describe, in precise detail, every single bird that they had ever photographed.  

They were also able to list the names of the birds they were yet to capture on film together with details of these birds’ preferred habitats.

I have to admit it all went completely over my head, quite literally. 

I also have to admit that I have never had any desire whatsoever to sit outside in my garden, camera in hand, waiting to photograph a bird of any description. 

Who wants to sit for hours on end watching birds flying around? 

But then I saw this video and I take it all back. 

I’ve watched it three times and I’m still amazed.

Video credit: Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

Proof we really did visit the Guinness World Records HQ, London

When IJ told her school friends she was off to the Guinness World Records HQ to meet some real life record breakers and take a look behind the scenes, we’re pretty sure that the majority of them did not believe her.

Surely no-one could take a ride across London on the world’s fastest sofa and find themselves being photographed by amazed bystanders en route. There’s no way you’d meet the world’s largest rabbit and actually stroke it.

And no-one is going to believe we met the world’s fastest talker, held a giant Converse trainer and even attempted our own world record. So it’s probably best not to even mention the Bubbleologist and his incredible bubble display.

We needed to gather proof.