Sounds good ipsos. Wish I was good at gardening (or come to think of it, that we had a garden :o). I often end up on blogs when I'm trying to find out how to do something - just today I couldn't work out how to delete a sample from my kindle and found a blog post on it. It's a great help to be able to find stuff like that (not least because, as I was discussing with a customer today, most gadgets don't actually come with paper manuals anymore!)
Totally get what you mean about needing to do something that is away from 'being mum', that's another reason I'm thinking of blogging (although it will mostly be about the DCs' activities so not that much 'away' really...) - got a couple of other plans too, I want to read up on a particular subject too and really get to know everything I can about it, just to give my brain a challenge that I'm really craving ATM.
Today was SO spendy what with the shopping and taxis, and DH needed a new shirt for the wedding. Tomorrow is more spendy as it's climbing club - got the next block to pay for, plus log books so the DCs can start doing their levels. Hoping that we will have a frugal few days when at the wedding (staying with family), then we will be throwing ourselves back into proper home ed and apart from paying for clubs/related paraphernalia [that word is so hard to spell!] we can ease off the spendiness. Although we also have the world cup match to go to. Not good planning! Will have to have a veeeery frugal couple of months if we are to have any hope of pulling it back by Christmas (incidentally, I have started a spreadsheet for that and am recording EVERY related spend!)