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Mr B and I don’t often get time alone together. He works all day and after we’ve had dinner and put the two little monkeys to bed there are just a few hours of awake time left, many of which I spend on the pc in our kitchen, blogging and writing and reading, […]
Tonight I am not here. I am away doing fun things such as cocktail drinking and laughing and chatting and being all girlie with my friend Holl and hopefulyl with Belle too. At some point we will be podcasting with the delectable Cami and boogeying to Mr Kaos’s musical interludes, and I won’t […]
My igoogle homepage has a ‘How To of the Day’.
Generally it’s something slightly geeky or cheesy that you might not really need, such as ‘How to Lasso an Eel’, or ‘How to shave the word “paprika” onto the back of a skunk’.
But todays made me click on it.
It MADE me.
No it wasn’t the “How to […]
When I first had Miss E in 2000, I was what some might consider to be quite a young mum. I was 25, just finishing a degree in English, and pretty broke. Mr B was also studying, and though I worked between 24 and 31 hours a week on the Slimming World Sinline […]
Today, Miss M has spent much of the afternoon trying not to wake a sleeping ladybird as she passed it on the stairs.
After she mentioned it for the third time, I decided to investigate, and found this…
Yep, it’s a ladybird.
Nope, it’s not asleep…
But I didn’t have the heart to tell Miss M that the sleeping […]
As I said yesterday, Five Minutes For Mom are hosting their annual Blog Party which they say,
“is a fantastic opportunity to introduce your blog to a bunch of new people and to find new blogs that you will want to read regularly.
As well, The Ultimate Blog Party features tons of prizes. The prize list […]
This morning was rough.
It was one of those mornings I think most parents experience, and every parent dreads.
It was the crying.
The crying at the Nursery door.
The crying, and the clinging to the leg, and the teacher prising your child away from you, type of morning.
And then the having to walk away from the crying.
And I […]
Today’s Fun Monday is brought to us by lovely Sayre who says,
Every day as I go to work, I see things around me that make me laugh. Usually these are in the forms of signs. So take your camera with you as you go about your business and take a picture of the things that […]
I don’t know how it happened.
It is a mystery.
Maybe it was small green beings from another planet?
Perhaps some kind of ‘anti-ostrich outfit manipulation’ society?
Or even the ‘Beaufoix Conspiracy Theory Body’ who believe I have sold my soul to a Jaffa Cake??
But…
..somehow, (I have no idea when, or where, or by whom), somehow, I have been […]
Hooray, my PC is now much better after some TLC from Mr B, so I can at last bring you the competition winners…
Six of you lovely people found the time in this mad month of novel writing, NanoBloMo, Thanks Giving, and Christmas shopping, to work out my semaphore message.
The answer was,
“Get your coat, you’ve […]