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Miss E has always loved singing. Each night as she lay in her big pine bed surrounded by soft toys and sweet smelling blankets she would take my hand and make her request and I would sing till her eyes closed, her breathing slowed and I was able to sit up without her springing […]
Today has been one hell of a day. My lovely sister-in-law’s Grandad has been laid to rest, as has my cousin’s hubby’s Dad who was also a very special and much loved man, and we are waiting on the funeral of my other sister-in-law, Sarah’s, wonderful Gran who also lost her fight for life […]
Foodstuffs.
Can they really be useful when sharing your innermost thoughts with a loved one?
Take apples. Sometimes people describe another person as the ‘apple of their eye’. That always strikes me as a little strange. I mean, apples have absolutely nothing to do with eyes, unless you have green or red eyes and […]
Miss M has recently begun declaring her love for me with effusive spontaneity. It is so sweet to have my little girl chattering away about how there is a daddy spider and a baby spider on a web near the window, then from there jump to the words “I love you […]
My mate Rosie gets slightly miffed if I mention Mansfield’s ‘bookshop’.
Rosie: “Mansfield doesn’t have a book shop Jo, it has Whsmiths, which is not a bookshop.”
Me: “It has blumming books doesn’t it? So it’s a bookshop.”
Rosie just shakes her head in mock disgust and grins. You see, though she was born […]
It’s 3am and Miss M is crying.
I lie in bed listening, waiting to see if it will remain the habitual cry of a small child who wakes in the dark momentarily, then closes her eyes and heads off back to dreamland, or whether it will grow and build and become one of fear and need […]
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, […]
This morning at 9am my sister-in-law Helen’s grandad died.
He was the most charming and lovely man. Over the 15 or so years I have known him he has been a warm presence, always smiling, wonderful with Misses E and M and his own great grand children cousins ME and baby J, and a […]
Apparently this is where Miss E hoped we’ll be staying for the last week or so.
Well this is her dream room anyway, and I can’t help being kind of pleased because we’re on the way there. I mean, she has a wardrobe, a bed, walls, a ceiling, and a clock, as well as book […]
Is it wrong to want to own a turtle?
This is Snorkle.
She’s a blind and epileptic leather-back turtle and she currently resides at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth.
Except.
She isn’t there anymore. I have stolen her. I slipped her in my pocket and replaced her with an upside down mixing bowl strapped to a leather slipper. […]
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