Almost Definitely Going to Hell

She sits small and calm beside grown up feet.  Thumb in mouth, small hand twirling in shining hair, watching, as one by one they step up and take their place.
Twice she turns around, waves, smiles, then her eyes return to the front, to her teacher, to her friends.  And she waits.
I am waiting too.  Knotted, [...]

Miss M the Dancing Rabbit – The Gallery

Lovely Tara’s Gallery theme today is portraits.   I’ll add the links later as my internet is being evil and I can’t do it on my phone as I am dim that way, but Miss M is not Miss M today.   She is Lettice the Dancing Rabbit for National Book Day.  This is about as [...]

Broken

I am broken.
Almost completely broken.
How do I know?
Well, I have evidence.  Firstly I have dropsy.  You know, the kind where you drop things constantly?  It is a real illness.  Is is is.  So far today there has been milk, yogurt, car keys, mobile, bag, and contents of bag all over the floor, as well as a [...]

Laying on the Mummy Guilt with SeaWorld

Miss M clambers onto my knee, her eyes not moving from the screen as she angles her small body into my arms.  Miss E kneels behind me, her hand light on my shoulder, then heavier as she leans in closer.  Then they are still.
Miss M:  ”Ooohhhh Mummy.”
Miss E:  ”Wow.  There are two of them, look, [...]

Just Sinful

Once there was a word, and the word was ‘Gallery’.  And from this word there came a theme.  And whence Tara of The Sticky Fingers spake the theme, they did come.
They did come in their tens, in their hundreds, in their millions.  They did come to bear witness.  To weep, to mourn and to laugh. [...]

Sometimes You Just Know…

It’s weird the stuff kids remember isn’t it?  Sometimes they truly surprise you.  They see stuff you somehow miss, and remember things that enter your brain but are swiftly extinguished replaced by bigger, ‘better,’ more grown up concerns.  And I wonder to myself, ‘What made that stand out for them?  What was it that meant [...]

Will You Ever Get Over This?

I was going to post a photo here.
It was going to be a photo of my night out last night.
There would have been laughter, dancing, and a proper cheesy light up dance floor.
You would have loved it.
It would have made you so happy you would have jumped up and immediately done a happy dance.
You would [...]

The Little Penny And The Little Girl

Once there was a little penny and a little girl.
Whilst the little girl knew it was probably not a good idea to put the little penny in her mouth, sometimes little girls do stuff they’re not meant to, and anyway how can you find out how a little penny tastes if you don’t try it?
So [...]

The Joy of Sex – Gallery Week 7

We’re in the reptile house at Drayton Manor Park.  The kids are entranced by all the slithery, spiky, scaly things.  Their faces are pictures.  Bright eyes, broad toothy grins or wide gasping mouths caught mid ‘Oooh’.
But the adults?  The adults are entranced by something else..

Sighhhhh, amorous amphibians – truly joyous.  I also filmed them for [...]

Lickey What?

Nobody thought it could happen.  I mean, who really believes in them anyway?  Yes you can read about them, see pictures, some people even claim to have spoken to one, but they’re always a bit of an enigma; living on the edges of reality.  You can grasp an essence but you can’t know if what [...]