Happy Holidays!
Well, my dears, I’m off to sun myself for a while, or at least to drench myself in factor 50 in the shade while the children frolic. Back in ten days. I’m missing you already …..have fun too! DDxx
Synchronised pigs will fly
If you’re casting around for things to do on a wet Bank Holiday, then look no further than the movie Nanny McPhee. This is the lovely film premier I was invited to a couple of weeks ago, then embargoed from talking about. An embargo at my dangerous mid-40s age is a dicey thing – there …
Happy Easter
I got home all fired up to take a picture of our Easter tree to show you. This is a little ritual we adopted while living in Belgium. Basically, you take any old twiggy branch, and festoon it with lots of fluffy day-glo chickies and eggies and Eastery bits. When we first arrived back in …
Please vote for me!
Lovely Linda of You’ve Got Your Hands Full and Have a Lovely Time has nominated me for this award !! Normally I would go all middle-class and squirmy and ‘what, little me?’ and ‘oh, I don’t deserve it’ and ‘I couldn’t possibly ask you to vote for me.’ But the voting closes tomorrow. There’s hardly any …
A rose with a thorn
It was the school’s Easter concert tonight, my favourite of the year. Bittersweet, as ever, though, as I watched the other parents wander in two by two and sit and wave at their children. There’s no place where I feel more like a single parent than on a shiny wooden pew at a school do. …
Award time
Ok, I admit it. I am completely rubbish with awards. I’m always thrilled to bits to get them. I glow with pride. I feel great bursts of bloggy love. I rush over to whoever the kind and generous donor is, I download the picture, I stow it in a little folder – and there it sits, gathering …
Dreams can come true
I’ve been blowing my own trumpet so much of late that I am in real danger of blistering my perfect pout. But, in the absence of a team of cheerleaders on my benches, I sort of feel justified. Almost. Well, anyway, the news is so exciting that I can’t help yelling it from the rooftops …
An oldie but a goodie ……
…..Just to cheer us all up. Particularly me, as my @£$%* computer has been on the blink since Tuesday. And big thanks to my lovely friend S for passing it on. Dear Tech Support, slowdown in overall system performance — particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend. Romance and …
Teen surfers
Two very nice ladies came to see me this morning to tell me all about Norton’s clever new OnlineFamily system. It’s basically designed to be a high tech virtual playpen, keeping your children out of all that bad stuff on the web. It’s designed for more technology friendly families than ours, I think. We only have …
A happy day
A little post to celebrate my happy mother’s day with my girls. We went to a Secret Film Screening which is so hush-hush and embargoed that I can’t even write about it until next Monday! Thanks, lovely EnglishMum, who kindly passed on the invite. Don’t tell the film people, but I’m really hoping I won’t …