The good stuff

For this weeks Fun Monday, Southern Doll wants to know;
“What have you done in your life that was worth doing? I want to know the moments in your life that you hope will be the ones to pass through your mind when your time comes. I hope that doesn’t sound too morbid. This doesn’t necessarily [...]

Miss M and some green pants

Miss M: “Gib me dat pencil E. It my good morning pencil.”
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It’s amazing when you start looking into it, just how many little things you can do everyday that will help the environment.
Friends of the Earth have a daily tip that you can subscribe to to help you to run your life [...]

Memoirs of a Beaufoix girl

My Six Word Memoir
Lovely Rosie has tagged me for a meme she nicked from Miss Corey.
It all started over at Smith Magazine, and the copy and paste history is thus:
Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Last year, [...]

Edible pictures

I have a question.
Why do my kids look better if I categorize them as foodstuffs?
You see, this shot of Miss M?

I took this using the ‘cuisine’ setting on my camera.
I have to point out that Miss M chose this dress as her big sis has a similar one, and she picked the socks, and the [...]

Ladybird ladybird

Today, Miss M has spent much of the afternoon trying not to wake a sleeping ladybird as she passed it on the stairs.
After she mentioned it for the third time, I decided to investigate, and found this…

Yep, it’s a ladybird.
Nope, it’s not asleep…
But I didn’t have the heart to tell Miss M that the sleeping [...]

Bad Mummy and birthdays

Today I was a bad mummy.
Well, maybe not bad, but kind of naughty…ish.
You see, Miss E wanted a sausage roll for dinner, and I absently, in that, ‘I’m not really listening’ kind of way, said, “yeah, that’ll probably be ok.”
Then I looked in the fridge and there before me was the fresh pasta that [...]

More scary than a very scary thing

It comes from beyond the hall. A slow, eerie dragging sound, accompanied by muffled yet unmistakable thuds and squeaks.
I stand for a moment.
Perfectly still.
The kind of still where you actually stop breathing because the sound of your chest rising and falling might just cover the millisecond when this someone or something takes its next [...]

Nekked Lizards Fun Monday

The fabulous Nekked Lizards are hosting this weeks Fun Monday and their challenge is:
FIVE PICTURES – FIVE WORDS PER PICTURE.
Any 5 (FIVE) pictures, any subject, and any 5 (FIVE) words to describe and/or explain each picture.
Here we go…

My kids feet. Just perfect.

Hail storms in April? Weird.

A gift from a friend.

I bet they play [...]

Hair today, and tomorrow, and the next day

I was born in the seventies.
1975 to be exact.
The second of four children, I was a busy kid who loved getting grubby and riding my bike and inventing stories in my head. I was a bit of a dreamer and would play for hours with my brothers, my mates, or on my own.
Often I [...]

More lessons with Ms Beaufoix

Gorgeous Cami has tagged me for a cute meme.
It is one of the best kind of memes because it is easy, and everyone loves an easy meme right?
All you have to do is list 5 classes that SHOULD have been taught in school.
And these are mine…
1. How to dye your hair without getting [...]