Pink and pretty?

The place where I live gets quite a bit of stick.
In 2007 it was voted 9th worst place to live in the whole of the UK. Vehicle theft is nearly twice the national average, house burglary is common and public health and education statistics are poor.
SO it warms the cockles of my heart [...]

There are so many reasons not to use a certain word in this post title

Don’t you just love it when something happens that gives you a little glimpse inside your kid’s head and you like what you see?
I don’t mean, you know, actually inside her head, brains and gooey bits and all that, that would be icky, but something that shows a little bit of her character, of her [...]

Nothing to see here

I have nothing, absolutely nothing.
So I have decided to make something up. Okay?
Good.
Today I was run over by a marauding elk. I was wandering past Schmesco, minding my own business when it lept over a passing tugboat and shunted me head first into a pile of marshmallows someone had left carelessly by [...]

Pernickety kid

Miss M is off school today. She has conjunctivitis so is a little sore and battered about the eyes but otherwise fine. Just before lunch she tramps into the kitchen wearing Miss E’s flippers, tugs on my arm and clears her throat.
Miss M: “Mummy, where shall my go to get to [...]

Walls

Jan of the fabulous Prytz family is hosting this week’s Fun Monday. Sorry I’m late everybody, life sometimes intervenes, but my post will be up later.
LATER:
Jan’s theme for the day was walls. She wanted to know about the walls in our homes – what’s on them, the colours, what we [...]

Dads

Dads…

Do disco…

Do drinks…

Do daft…

Happy Father’s to the all the dads in my family, and big kisses to Mr B’s dad, grumpy grampy, up in heaven watching cricket.
xxx

The Beaufoix boat comes in

Today we did the school proud by attending the church garden party. Mr B unfortunately had band rehearsal and couldn’t come, so Misses E and M, Granny and Grandad and I headed off armed with bags, sunhats, raincoats and dosh. It’s always a really nice occasion as it’s full of people who’ve known [...]

Enough

Today my niece baby J came for tea. My sister-in-law is away for the weekend for my other sister-in-law to be’s Hen Night in Palma. My sister is there too but I couldn’t go. (She’s having another hen weekend in Manchester soon so I won’t miss out. )
SO, my brother Dave has [...]

A prickly what?

Why Miss M should never cook part 3

Miss M: My making a cake Mummy.

Me: “That’s nice babe.”
Miss M: “But Mummy, dis tiger doesn’t want to be a cake.”

Me: “Oh, well, take him out and we’ll just pretend.”
Miss M: “No. I need him to be a cake, so, he’s a cake.”
Me: “Erm, okaaaaaay.”
Miss M: “Eat [...]