Jo Beaufoix | Tag Archive

Obama and the Singing Bear

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Can I just say, I am so, so , so pleased that Obama got in. It feels like there’s a little hope again. Only time will tell, but hope is a good start. And talking of starting, Christmas seems to be almost upon us and the very annoying and yet irresistible singing soft toy wars have [...]

Bad heads and Lemonheads

Thursday, October 30, 2008

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The slugs have given me a Migraine. It hurts, so I’m giving you a cute song from my ‘yoof’ that I rediscovered today, as it makes me smile.

When cool got married

Sunday, September 28, 2008

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Yesterday was quite possibly the coolest wedding in the world ever. Why? 1. The bride, my mate Lu, was wearing a fabulous creation from an amazing and also very lovely Nottingham Designer who makes clothes for Dita Von Teese and the Scissor Sisters. So she looked like a princess but with a funky/sassy edge that [...]

Tickling the Ivories

Thursday, September 25, 2008

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We were 22, an age when you think you’re grown up but most people think you’re really not. There was me and there was Lucy and there was Dez and there was Nats. We decided a girlie night was in store, but not the usual trawl around the finest hostelries in Nottingham before a [...]

Baby mine

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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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 [...]

Just a moment

Sunday, August 17, 2008

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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, [...]

Miss M gets her groove on

Sunday, June 29, 2008

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I had to share this. Miss M is just too funky, hee hee. Have a fabulous Sunday.

Dona Nobis Pachem

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

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The Peace Globe project started in 2006 with one blog, Mimi Writes. Today bloggers worldwide will be blogging under the above title and posting their own personal peace globe along with their hopes for peace. I was stuck on what to write about. There are so many areas in our world that are less than [...]

Happy times

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

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Help. Holly just sent me the following text. ‘Lort’. I could be wrong, but I think that means LOST. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! If she isn’t here, or at least is no longer lost by the time I hit publish I will send out a search party of trained woodlice I have primed and ready for any such event. I know, I know she’s [...]

Hit me with your rhythm stick

Sunday, May 25, 2008

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Tonight Mr B and I are going to watch The Golden Compass. I am excited, but not as excited as I am about tomorrow and the next day and the day after that. You see tomorrow, ‘The Blockheads’, as in , ‘Ian Drury and the Blockheads’, are playing in the market square in Nottingham, along with [...]