I can’t pretend to know much about what’s going on in Houla, Syria, but when lovely Potty Mummy asked me to join in and write something about the situation, in order to try and focus as much attention as possible on what is going on there, I was very pleased to join in. Of course …
Ok, I’m breaking off from the gardening for just long enough to bring you something which may well change your lives – Child Two’s Fruit Theories. Now Child Two is a thoughtful sort of girl. She is not one to waffle. She has a tidy mind (though sadly not always the tidiest bedroom ….) and …
I have a confession to make. I’ve been neglecting my blog. I have another love. It’s crept up on me all of a sudden, but it’s turned into a deep passion, more or less overnight. Well, since it stopped raining anyway. It’s gardening. It’s just so lovely to be outside, pottering around in the flowerbeds, …
Hello my lovelies, I am back at last from a little jaunt to Copenhagen. TL had to go to a conference so I scrounged a lift to see whether the whole of Denmark is like Borgen, The Killing and The Bridge. Well, I’m glad to report that, as far as I’m concerned, it is. I …
Great excitement with the girls this morning. Child One had remembered a dream. This is quite an event, as she is convinced she almost never dreams. Her last one was about tomatoes and a lighthouse, so you can see they are worth waiting for. This one didn’t disappoint. The mild-mannered father of one of her …
Did you see The Hoarder Next Door last week, Channel 4’s latest lifestyle shocker? I watched it with Child Two last night on catch-up and it’s rocketed into first place in my telly loves list, ahead of even Homeland – well yes, mainly because Homeland has just finished, but still …. I’m not sure what …
Thanks so much for all your sympathy over poor Child Two’s GCSE travails. As you now know, the school make the whole of Year 9 take one of their exams early. They are only 14, and it’s not even a subject that she would particularly want to take at 16. But there we are, it’s …
Lovely to be included in the fabulous Tara’s video of fabulousness over on her blog Sticky Fingers. We certainly are a talented bunch, we mummy bloggers. Though, with all the juggling, cake-making and multi-tasking on show, I kind of wish I’d chosen something a bit more radical than cleaning as my own claim to fabulousness. …
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Curious, the nature of women’s friendship. I feel more of a common bond with my female friends than I do with male ones and yet I am aware that sometimes women just are judgemental and acid towards each other. I’ve seen it and, I’m afraid, occasionally, I’ve done it. But I’m not sure why it …