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Minging

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Feeling a little melancholy tonight. I’m a bit hormonal and missing my kids in the day time I think. I’m so used to having Miss M chattering away beside me, and instead I have this tired little person who is either grumpy or completely manic and hurling herself around like a mad child. [...]

To bath but not to Bath

Saturday, September 19, 2009

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Today we should have been in Bath. We should have been in Bath with my friend Zerilda. We should have been in Bath with my friend Zerilda and her two kids, kids that my two kids adore, and that I kind of love too. Bugger bugger bugger. Instead, I plan to be in the bath with a glass of [...]

Have you seen my silly?

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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I’ve lost my silly. I think it may have eloped with a shoe salesman or possibly a heron. In case you’re wondering what a ’silly’ looks like, mine is kind of soft and squishy and varies in colour from hot pink to a cool soothing duck egg blue depending on mood and temperature, and whether or not [...]

Jo Whiley – My World in Motion, a book for the 90s indie kid?

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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Jo Whiley – My World in Motion, a book for the 90s indie kid?

If all has gone to plan, I am at The Big Chill Festival with Misses E and M. So while I’m having my own musical interlude, I thought I’d share another one (of sorts) with you. As I’ve mentioned before, oohh about 8 million times, I was a 90s kid. A 90s kid as in I was [...]

A Musical Blast from the Past and ‘My Bump and Me.’

Friday, February 27, 2009

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A Musical Blast from the Past and ‘My Bump and Me.’

Never one to miss out on an opportunity for free literature, I jumped at the chance to review a new paperback release from Virgin Books. UK celebrity, Myleene Klass, singer, classical musician, TV/radio presenter and bikini wearing jungle babe has recently joined the Mummy club and while working on the production of her mini me, the [...]

A Dream Come True?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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At last it has arrived. Mansfield finally has a coffee establishment that begins with ‘Star’ and ends with ‘B**ks’. I knew it would only be a matter of time, what with having a double Olympic Gold Medal Winner, and a visit to our local college from Prince Charles himself this week. Sighhhhh. Next we’ll be getting a [...]

I sat in his chair

Monday, February 16, 2009

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There’s just a voice. Not loud, not demanding, but quietly enthusiastic. You don’t have to listen. You can choose to roll over in your sleeping bag, close your eyes and dream your own dreams, but if you do that a chorus of shushing and tutting will accompany the rustle as you try to change position [...]

A Labour of Love

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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Tonight I need to read me some Shakespeare, in fact, I need to read Love’s Labour’s Lost. Why? Well, on Friday I will be traversing to Stratford Upon Avon to see the delectable David Tennant in this 16th Century Comedy, along with my gorgeous Holly and my scrumptious Belle. Being an English Graduate I have read most of [...]

Chuggington, where trains really are cool

Monday, November 3, 2008

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Chuggington, where trains really are cool

Tonight I have been dancing. I have been dancing to a little piece of fabulousness I experienced on Saturday in the heart of Londinium on an all expenses paid trip courtesy of the lovely folks at Wolfstar. They invited a lucky group of bloggers to a private screening of the wonderful new children’s series, Chuggington, so, early on Saturday morning, [...]

In love with Borders

Friday, August 22, 2008

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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 [...]