The Front Door Adoption Society

This week Tara has asked for photographs from outside your front door.  The thing is, I live on a fairly simple, fairly narrow little street.  We love it here.  We love our little house.  But, well, if I took a picture of our view it would be a bit weird.  In fact, it’s quite possible [...]

Just Don’t Tell the Children

When I was young and sweet and innocent I used to believe stuff.  Now I am far less gullible, cough, but back then, well, I wasn’t always sure what was real and what was pretend.
For example, I remember watching a programme where a Chinese Dragon – you know, the fabric kind – ate a young [...]

My Kid Knows Stuff

We’re at the cinema.  Having sat through Alice in Wonderland and drunk a bottle of water mixed down with several jellybeans, a few mini eggs and a plethora of jelly strawberries, it is no surprise that we end our visit with a visit of another kind.
Being a fairly independent 5 year old Miss M now [...]

A Little Bit Me

colourful   scattered    fun   bright    childlike    varied   innocent   naughty   friendly
approachable    smart    smiley    many   chocolate    liked   disliked    honest    open

Me x
Tara Lara’s Gallery theme today is Me.  I really struggled to find an image that I was comfortable with as a representation of [...]

I Wish My Rabbit Would Stop Eating the Furniture

Having spent the evening attempting to upload a podcast (bum, b*gger, butt monkeys, arse biscuits) I have given up and am now exercising the rabbit (the sweet fluffy kind and not, erm, anything else) and settling in to watch Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince on my new Xbox 360 Elite which I have [...]

Biscuit Parthenon

Greek Project schmeek project.  Really, it’s uncanny.

The Parthenon.

The Biscuit Parthenon.
Sighhhhhhh, my kid rocks.
AND, when it collapsed a little as I boxed it up and wrapped it in clingfilm to make it all air tight, did Miss E stress?
Miss E:  ”Ahhh don’t worry Mum.  I can mend it, and anyway, it’s meant to be a ruin.”
That [...]

Colour Me Good

Lovely gorgeous and ’smells a bit like chocolate’ Miss Tara of the Sticky Fingers has set ‘colour‘ as this week’s gallery theme.
Having been inspired by a very talented and clever lady, my friend Kerry,  fabulous wife of fabulous blogger Dan (All That Comes With It),  I have taken my camera shopping today.  (Yes I found the [...]

A Final Farewell

You call out ‘goodbye.’  Maybe there’s a token peck on the cheek, a shared smile, a brief hug.  The car pulls away and you go back to your book, your day, your life.  Later you imagine them flying over the sea.  They should be there now.  Exploring the ancient city, fulfilling a dream, to see [...]

Guilty As A Girl Can Be – Mother’s Day Confessions

Sometimes our kids get the worst of us don’t they?
I’ve had my girls back just a few hours.  They arrived tired and buzzy and kind of highly strung and there was the sort of bickering that you know is going to lead to tears and trauma.  But instead of being that calm, patient, loving Mummy who [...]

Help – Psychic Needed

Dear Readers
I need your help.
I need you to ‘channel’my camera charger.  It is somewhere in my house…or at my Mum and Dad’s…or at my friend’s…or dropped randomly in the street somewhere, possibly huddled against an empty crisp packet and a one legged pigeon.
I need you to feeeeeel the charger.  Close your eyes and imagine its [...]