Miss M can do magic

Tonight Miss M and I read this: By Nicola Baxter. M knows it nearly by heart. If I’m honest, it’s not the best story in the world in my opinion, but the pictures are adorable and I used some of them when I painted the mural in Miss E’s room. You remember, the one with [...]

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Slugged again

Have you… ..ever seen… ..anything more gross… ..in your kitchen?? Dumdad, you can’t play as I’ve seen the picture of the cow’s tongue and I can only imagine the brains…. But look. It is gross isn’t it? I mean, I’m not missing a slug loving gene am I?? Hmmm, I wonder if soft focus will help… Nope, still shiny, still [...]

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The Gift

Mr B came home last night laden with gifts. It wasn’t our anniversary. We hadn’t had an argument. He just saw something and thought of me. Isn’t he nice?? (Well, sometimes anyway.) You’re all excited now aren’t you? What is it? Wine? Jewellery? A holiday? A new car? (OK, you’re getting a bit too excited there if you think he’s just going to go out [...]

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The nightmare is coming true

Many of you who know me will be well aware of the problems we have been having this summer with a certain group of little slimy visitors… Remember this… and this? Well, according to BBC News 24, ‘Plentiful rain, warm temperatures and a shortage of sun have   provided perfect munching conditions for [...]

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More slugs

Arghhhh I’m being stalked, harrassed and terrorised by slugs. First there was the one in the washer, and you all know what happened to that one. Next there’s one watching Mr B and I as we sit watching ‘Wire in the Blood’ in our living room. It peers in the window with its little slug eyes [...]

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Yuck and Yum

I wasn’t sure what I’d write about today as I didn’t want to bring on the sads, but Mr B gave me some blog fodder last night with a small gift. It was an unusual present. In actual fact it nearly made me lose my dinner. I was minding my own business emptying the washing into the tumble [...]

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