non mummsy hair. in summer 2014 is a creepin' in.

I have an ongoing battle with myself to not look mummsy, I mean, I love being a mum; you know I do. But, there's a huge part of me that still wants to come across as youthful (even though my skin belies that) in the way I look. My attitude is youthful, childlike even, but it's hard not to look mummsy when you are a mum.

Especially in this heat! Don't me wrong, I'm not knocking the heat, I'm loving it, but when your hair is as long and as thick as mine the temptation to just bung it up in a scrunchy is overwhelming! I've resisted time and time again, even had people comment on how hot I must be with my hair down but yesterday, yesterday I gave in.

I cut the (yellowing) grass as it was getting a little straggly which is usually an invite to all the local cats to poo everywhere, then I decided to tackle the trampoline which is a victim of age and the local cats who use the foam padding as purchase for climbing up it. I pulled all the padding off and binned it, I discovered that three of the springs had snapped and, luckily, remembered that it originally came with spares! (For me to remember that type of thing a few weeks later is impressive, let alone over seven years later). Between rich, myself and a tent peg remover tool we managed to get those springs on. Wooohooooo! I then found some pipe insulation foam in the shed to replace the padding from the net poles, I also used some to cover the springs, which I saw on pintrest recently!

As you can imagine, I was getting very hot during this and all this hair kept getting in the way so I grabbed one of the hair clips I use when de-nitting us all, wound my hair around and clipped it without looking in a mirror. Later, when I did glance mirrorwards I quite liked the effect. But tell me please, did I succeed in avoiding mummsy hair? Thanks.