First impressions, the ones people never forget

So you’re at a big family occasion, family you don’t often see. It’s a 30th birthday and our star guest has come all the way from Berlin. Only three other people there have ever met Miss M, to the rest she is an unopened book, a sweet new addition. I’m really looking [...]

Nothing to do with me

More goodbyes

Today has been one hell of a day. My lovely sister-in-law’s Grandad has been laid to rest, as has my cousin’s hubby’s Dad who was also a very special and much loved man, and we are waiting on the funeral of my other sister-in-law, Sarah’s, wonderful Gran who also lost her fight for life [...]

Happy Anniversary babe

Foodstuffs.
Can they really be useful when sharing your innermost thoughts with a loved one?
Take apples. Sometimes people describe another person as the ‘apple of their eye’. That always strikes me as a little strange. I mean, apples have absolutely nothing to do with eyes, unless you have green or red eyes and [...]

I love you but…

Miss M has recently begun declaring her love for me with effusive spontaneity. It is so sweet to have my little girl chattering away about how there is a daddy spider and a baby spider on a web near the window, then from there jump to the words “I love you [...]

When boredom attacks

Sometimes you get a bit bored.
Sometimes when you’re at your friends house, and they’re busy doing some work while you’re doing some writing, and the kids are playing upstairs and it’s raining outside and it’s quiet, quiet, quiet and you should be enjoying the freedom and the silence… you get a bit bored.
So you’re sitting [...]

Yes sir

 
This week, Fun Monday comes from three lovely ladies, Min, Stephanie and Margaret at Mama Drama who are always witty, insightful and a lot of fun.
They say: ” Somewhere in your past education, you picked up some little bit of useless information that you’ve never forgotten. What is it?”
Hmmmm. Well there [...]

Take That Madonna

See these?

Well, they’re not Madonna’s, they’re mine.

Well some of them are mine.

Probably at least two of them are mine.

See Madonna,

My kids.
Cute, amusing, and we have your biscuits.
We win.
Update:
Some of you thought I’d put a little too much of my girls faces here.  I kind of agreed, as did Dan, Holl, Rosie, Mr B and my [...]

Be afraid, be very afraid.

It was a day of intermittent torrential rain. A day of indoor entertainment, havoc reeking monkeys and the occassional squabble. Rosie and I supped tea and coffee, and I blogged a little on her laptop while she did some work. For us it was a shared moment of quiet companionship while [...]

In love with Borders

My mate Rosie gets slightly miffed if I mention Mansfield’s ‘bookshop’.
Rosie: “Mansfield doesn’t have a book shop Jo, it has Whsmiths, which is not a bookshop.”
Me: “It has blumming books doesn’t it? So it’s a bookshop.”
Rosie just shakes her head in mock disgust and grins. You see, though she was born [...]