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My lovely blog buddy Akelamalu invited me to do a meme where you empty the contents of your handbag/purse for all to see. I’m going to make this short as I’m away this weekend and have so much to do.
Ready?
Ok.
The instructions are:
1. Dump the contents of your purse in a pile
2. Take a […]
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 […]
The lovely Lisa is hosting this week’s Fun Monday and she was kind enough to give us two choices for our Fun Monday subject.
The first is ‘What is the one thing you would like to ask your readers? Come up with a question to pose to your visitors and throw it out there.’
The second […]
I love my kids.
No honestly, I really do.
So why do I find this so satisfying?
Mwah ha ha haaaaaaaaa
Oh and I nearly forgot to lovely Dumdad reminded me.
Remember when I posted about a local girls Olympic success earlier this week??
Well, Mansfield lass Rebecca Adlington got her second Gold Medal today along with her second World […]
Story over and Miss M snuggles down under her soft pink duvet. On the verge of sleep but not quite ready to surrender, I see a look of concentration on her face, her lips firm, eyes frowning and head cocked to the right, deep in thought.
Then a small hand rests gently on my […]
So you know they say what goes around comes around, karma and all that?
Well, when I was 11 my Gran died. I comfort ate, got chubby and because I was also quite tall some of the asshat boys in my class decided I was ‘hard’ and could probably beat them in a fight.
I wasn’t […]
Can’t stop.
Packing and sweating, packing and sweating.
Yeah I know, ‘ladies don’t sweat they perspire’, but it’s so close here that even the girls are sleepy and wet headed in their beds. I think we’re going to be in for a storm, which is fine tonight, I love storms, but I don’t want to […]
They had not expected to meet a dragon when they set out that morning to visit the land of Chesterfield.
Minstrels and players, yes. Jesters and tumblers, yes. Jugglers on stilts, fairy tale princesses, men battling for the hand of a fair maiden or a free cup of mead, maybe a mad monk or […]