Just an idea to get us all chatting,

sign in here and say a few words about yourself so we can all start getting to know each other.

I'm Susan, married with two boys (3 and 1), and I'm a children's portrait photgrapher.

I'm originally from Newcastle but now live in Edinburgh.

I love playing games with my kids and my housework never gets done!!!

Oh and I'm 36 years old.

As you all already know, I am Vigdis, from Holland, my name is old Icelandic and I am the only person probably in the UK, but definitely in Holland with this name.

I have been living in Scotland for 17 years. Met my partner over here and we have an 11 year old son Jake. I work fulltime for IBM, so The Pink Martini is an evening and weekend baby or whenever I can.
Unlike Susan, I always get my housework done

And I am 44, 45 in November but still looking 35 according to my collegues

Jeez Vigdis,

Fancy shaming me on a public forum about my housework!!

How on earth do you manage it working day and night like you do?

I have 1 child, so that might be easier then 2. I do like to keep tidy, so every afternoon when I get home, I spend at least 1 hr or so organising everything and just a couple of hours in the weekend.

I do not iron, only when needed, so everything gets hanged in the wardrobes after it has been washed. Done this before, I ironed everything but only for the drawers to be a mess the next day again. So I thought that is was pointless having to do it again. Great timesaver this is - and hubby does his own

I only have carpet on the stairs, all the rooms are laminated and my my suite is leather, so these are items easy to keep clean. We do not smoke, what makes a difference as well.

And believe it or not, I still have time left for The Pink Martini and watch television at the same time.

Vigdis, you put me to shame!! There is only me in the house and I'm not half as organised as you!
I am 47 and work as a cashier in and accountants office, I am also self employed as an Independent Distributor for Ecoflow (you may have noticed that!!) I am passionate about helping people reduce pain naturally and am always delighted to see the results I get.
I live in Dumfries in South West Scotland and have done since I was 5 years old.

I feel no remorse over the lack of housework.

I can always find a million other, more exciting things to be doing....

mostly playing with the kids though.

Do you find that you always want to snap your children? The pics on your site look amazing and the children really look relaxed.

My boys are kinda bored with the whole posing thing at the moment, although I did manage to get an absolutely beautiful one of the two of them together the other day, which I will be adding to my gallery page soon.

The toughest thing is trying to get the little one to stay still for even a nanosecond.

I do have an album full of stuff of them though.

And of course the obligatory bath time shots to embarass them in front of future girlfriends.

I have one of my son in the bathroom with him sitting in the bath. Everytime when I get visitors, he turns the picture around or move it to his bedroom. Seems he is a bit embarred about it

I need to find the baby pics, so can embarras him even more.

Ah bless him.

My two still love looking at pics of themselves,

but they'll grow out it.