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Sometimes nothing else will do

Saturday, September 13, 2008

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We are sick. Back soon.

Hens hit Bath

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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As Saturday morning arrived bright and early thanks to the large resident cock (no pun intended)…(well ok, I meant it a little bit)… I awoke to the rustic beamed ceiling, the view from yesterday’s post, and silence. No cars, no buses, no general buzz of a town waking up. No alarm clocks, no small children jumping on [...]

Tell me more

Monday, August 18, 2008

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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 [...]

Imaginary friend?

Saturday, July 19, 2008

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Miss M: “Will you hold this for me Mummy?” I glance at Miss M. She is holding something tiny and invisible in her hand. Me: “Erm, Ok M, what is it?” Miss M: “Shhhhhhhh. You’ll wake him up.” She gently places the little piece of imaginary something into my open palm then closes my [...]

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 [...]

Oh woe is me

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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As some of you will know I stopped working as a Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant in 2006 due to depression. I won’t say that I had a break down, it didn’t quite get that far, but I stopped being able to function as I had been doing. My mask didn’t just slip, [...]

Yes I really did go out like this

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

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I promised to show you just how tired I was yesterday. That’s a kind of abstract thing to show right? But I can do it as I am clever like that. No I don’t have a special chart that displays levels of tiredness according to eyelid droopage or size and shade of under eyebags. There [...]