Once again I aim to enlighten

My igoogle homepage has a ‘How To of the Day’.
Generally it’s something slightly geeky or cheesy that you might not really need, such as ‘How to Lasso an Eel’, or ‘How to shave the word “paprika” onto the back of a skunk’.
But todays made me click on it.
It MADE me.
No it wasn’t the “How to [...]

Lou Reed at Willow Tree Farm

Click here if you would like musical accompaniment to this post.
I love this song.
Mr B introduced me to Lou Reed when we first got together and I think he’s wonderful.
I love that his voice isn’t perfect.
I love that he looks a bit craggy,

and I love that he writes these amazing [...]

A quick video test

This isn’t Jo, it’s Ashley, making sure YouTube videos display correctly. Hopefully this YouTube video of Mr B’s band, B-Movie, will show up. If it does, please enjoy the song, if it doesn’t, please leave a comment below.

Please scroll down for today’s Fun Monday.

Rainy Days and Mondays

Lovely AOJ over at the Lurchers wants us to describe in words and/or pictures our favourite walk.
So we had a lovely day planned today. We would visit Mr B’s mum, aka Grandma, and go on the lovely walk over the field to the park, then back home by the river.
But then the rain and [...]

Beloved

My Gran Booth was one of those people who radiated warmth. People knew her and loved her. She was someone they greeted with a smile, made time for, were pleased to see.
I think part of her appeal was that she was just a completely genuine person. She had no agenda, saw the [...]

Grace before meals?

Miss M showcases the Homely Ferret and her new favourite word…

Hope you’re all having a fab Saturday.

Pink pets and strange knees

Today Miss M brought this home from school;

Me: Oh that’s lovely babe. We must clean our gerbil out his weekend mustn’t we?
Miss M: “And den she will have no germs and be pink.”

Me: “Erm, well she’ll be in a nice clean house M, but she’ll probably stay brown. ”
And me and my [...]

The big book

Miss E and Miss M go to a catholic school.
It’s a good school. My brothers went there. My mum taught there. It’s family, but it was still a tough decision to send them there as although I was brought up Catholic, I don’t go to church much anymore.
I still have a faith [...]

Gurgles and a competition

When I first had Miss E in 2000, I was what some might consider to be quite a young mum. I was 25, just finishing a degree in English, and pretty broke. Mr B was also studying, and though I worked between 24 and 31 hours a week on the Slimming World Sinline [...]

Earth Day and heavy stuff

Today it is Earth day.
As in , the earth.
So we plan to take the bus home instead of adding our petrol fumes to the ether, (This has nothing to do with my mum not being able to pick us up and Mr B needing the car, honest) and we have seeds to plant.
Of course this [...]