I am Woman

Well, I was going to dress up as Cher and pose in a variety of fright wigs for your enjoyment tonight, but I can’t because I keep seeing the new Tena lady ad and it is driving me insane.
You know the one don’t you? 
A visual of 3 annoyingly smug and kind of tweedy looking women [...]

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General Chit Chat

We’re gearing up to another weekend of madness at chez Beaufoix.  My lovely landlady is having a new boiler installed so tomorrow, said boiler, and some extremely long gas pipes, are being delivered ready for installation on Friday.  What this means is that when Miss E gets home from school I will already have spent [...]

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Yet More Hair Raising Experiences

When I dropped Miss M at nursery this morning we bumped into my friend K. 
K is also our hair dresser.  She’s gorgeous, funny, completely down to earth and is quite possibly the only person in the world who can persuade Miss M to sit still for 15 minutes without the use of sweets, threats, or [...]

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They Were Being So Good

NOT sick.  
Hooray.  
And even though it rained today, we had guests, had fun and managed to get half the roof down and work out how we would get the rest down.  And it was all going so well until…
 
Bugger

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To Whoever is in Charge of Such Things…

It seems my new house has some kind of aversion to red wine.  Or rather, it’s making me have an aversion to read wine.  Seriously, even the smallest glass makes me feel rough as badger’s bum the next day.  
Either that or I have the lergy which would be very annoying as we’re off to [...]

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Stuff You Never Knew You Wanted To Know

Mr B is poorly sick. So, today when I had planned a ton of tidying, cleaning, organising, and possibly a drink with a friend, instead I have my two little monkeys tucked up in bed. He did manage to take them for their hair cuts and a McDonalds, but an over night stay [...]

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A Snail Tale

Snail on a wall
Snail on a wall
It’s good you’re all sticky
Or else you might fall
 
Where are you heading?
Where will you stop?
Going down to the bottom?
Or up to the top?
 
It’s kind of a mystery
We can’t comprehend
‘Cos you’re halfway to nowhere
Which is a blumming long way for a molluscan gastropoda to go unless he knows there’s an [...]

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