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Tell me more

Monday, August 18, 2008

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 [...]

Sometimes stuff is just so wrong it’s right

Saturday, August 16, 2008

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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 [...]

Sometimes parents are so dim

Thursday, August 14, 2008

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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 [...]

Karma?

Sunday, August 3, 2008

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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 [...]

Will we need wellies?

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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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 [...]

Medieval Mayhem

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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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 [...]

The Wedding

Friday, July 25, 2008

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Today my little brother Steve and my lovely SIL Sarah are getting married. These are the bridesmaids… Oh my Bob.

When plug holes attack

Thursday, July 17, 2008

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It’s funny how you can be down one day and then up the next. Not funny like a monkey doing a little dance then running off with some rich blokes sandwiches is funny… And not funny like Vic Reeves or Tommy Cooper or Stephen Fry or Eddie Izzard is/are funny… And not funny like a small badger playing [...]

The voice of doom

Sunday, July 13, 2008

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My niece ME is 4 years old. As she is 8 months older than Miss M she asserts she is the big girl on an almost daily basis and at times talks to Miss M like she is the wise maiden aunt who has led a long life and seen much of the world. On [...]

Mosaic Me

Saturday, July 12, 2008

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Last night I didn’t get to sleep until about 4am. I blame these ladies. Today has thus far, been crazy. First Ingenious Junior’s party, then deliver Miss M home, then deliver Miss E to school for her performance, then shopping, then watch performance with Holl and Queen of Hearts, then goodbyes and [...]