Win cool back to school goodies from WH Smith

WH Smith has been the only book shop in my hometown for a loooong time.  While other stores have come and gone, WH Smiths has remained.  It has moved a couple of times, but we still have it, and it has that aura of quality that comes with longevity and selectivity.
As Miss E and many [...]

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Making memories

We’re not here.
We’re actually in the beautiful Baie de Somme courtesy of Canvas holidays who having sponsored me for CyberMummy also asked us to review one of their holidays.  Well it would have been rude to say no right?
The sun has been mostly shining and we have been mostly relaxing, drinking inexpensive wine and eating [...]

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Miss M – Full of lovely holiday surprises

We’re in the pool.
M is floating in front of me, arms clutching mine as she bobs about in her bright yellow just-in-case arm bands.
Her eyes are on mine, steady, almost studious and I frown slightly as I recognise something in her expression.
A soft smile spreads across her face and her eyes glaze over a little.
Me:  [...]

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Coming home

We haven’t disappeared, honest.
Nor have we been eaten by giant hamsters or small but greedy wilderbeasts.
We’ve managed to avoid being kidnapped by Cliff Richards, Bernie Clifton or either of the Krankies, and none of us have been laid low by the pox or a really bad verucca.
We’ve actually been away in sunny France exploring the [...]

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I have an 11-year-old

I haven’t just captured a random one off the street with a bit of string and some cheese.
This one is mine.

Well sort of mine.
She also belongs to Miss M

And to Mr B

And Grandma

And Grandad

And Granny

And so many friends

But mostly she is her own person.

And I like  who she’s becoming so very much.
I love her even [...]

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One in four. It could be your Mum, your sister, your child.

Today Miss E and myself are off to Notts to be ladies wot shop and ladies wot lunch.
Tomorrow she will be 11 years old.
Miss M will be spending the day with Granny while E and I have some Mum and daughter time together.
So that’s myself and Miss E, my Mum and Miss M.
Four girls.
Four women.
There [...]

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Miss M reviews Furreal Friends Cookie

I love dogs. In my youth I worked in Boarding Kennels and groomed pampered pooches for a pittance I adored every minute of it. The slobbery kisses, the waggy tails, being knocked into dog baskets by over-friendly alsations, and wandering round a field with a shovel and bucket hunting out great mounds of [...]

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And then they stuck a needle in my bottom

So I went in armed with dates, news articles, blog posts, diaries, questions, hopes, fears, facts.
We talked.
They listened.
And then they jabbed me in the ar*e!!
That quick.  That simple.
I’ve been given Decapeptyl.  I can have it for 6 months and it will put me in temporary menopause.
It will prove if PMDD is the main problem.
It’s EXACTLY what [...]

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The beginning of the rest of my life…

Today, August 5th, is my PMDD referral.
I am scared, excited, hopeful and dread-filled.
Dread-filled because what if they don’t listen, can’t help, don’t get it?
I’ve already written a post about this on quick press and then completely lost it which maybe means that I was saying too much.  Then again it might just have been one [...]

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Psychic bunnies and the RSPCA 24/7

A week or so ago, in a fit of hormonal maternal emotional madness, I bought another rabbit…
It wasn’t my fault.
Bunny B was just far too cute and I could not resist.  So far she is proving a hit with Mr Z and Miss L our other long-eared, grass-chomping furry friends, and has led to some [...]

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