Tough talking at Divorce Towers yesterday. I was having a chat with the girls about life, growing up and stuff, and they were entering that fantasy realm, which I love, planning their future lives. Child Two used to say she would live next door to me but I notice she’s thinking of the other side …
Off to the dentist again for more torture. On the plus side (I am constantly counting my blessings now, in order to retrain my sad mind into a new, joyful bower. Blimey, there are so many pluses to count it’s as bad as maths homework. Ooops, methinks that is not the right attitude) this means …
Child one was at a sleepover last night. Sigh. Sleepovers are so different, now, from days of yore. Then, it was all Barbie nightdresses, watching Postman Pat and all in bed by a, gosh, it’s so late, 9.30, with a giggling outbreak of ‘midnight’ sweetie eating at about 10, followed by loud snores until breakfast, …
Well, my dearest ones, I am back. The holiday tally: Mosquito bites on my face, causing me to swell up like a pekingese, two; Enormous fillings which fell out while eating a chip which I lovingly cooked myself (don’t you just adore self catering?), one; Rows with stepchildren, one (but a vicious one and the …
Yippee, the girls will be back tomorrow! Not quite such yippee, they are bringing exactly 42kg of dirty washing with them. Though a smidgeon of clothes washing was achieved at their first holiday stop, all that good work, brought about by constant drilling from me that they might mention to Mr X the concept of …
I felt I really should alert you all to a scary new advert which lurched out of the TV at me last night. It featured two implausibly attractive young things, with long, golden limbs, cavorting about on a rug. You can picture it – they are carefree, gorgeous, they are so not fretting about whether …
I’m indebited to my dear friend C for this vital information which all women should take very much to heart. Needless to say, she is a fully qualified doctor (of philosophy ….. or something): “Do you have feelings of inadequacy? Do you suffer from shyness? Do you sometimes wish you were more assertive? If you …
Well, the girls have gone off on holiday, they’re having a lovely time and inevitably, I’ve ripped open the chocolate peanuts. I said I wouldn’t, and I lasted, oh, nearly six hours before tucking in. Sigh. All right, so it’s not the end of the world. Peanuts are packed with protein, chocolate contains iron, I …
I cannot BELIEVE it is a week since my last post, that is just so so so naughty of me, and there’s no excuse, except of course the crippling jetlag after our weekend in Wales. Oh, oops, that’s right ….no jetlag. Not even a time difference. It just feels as though I’m permanently a few …
I certainly know what it’s like to have that feeling that you’ve somehow fallen down a rabbit hole into a weird new life where nothing is quite as you expect …. and now you can all join in, getting your very own Alice in Wonderland vibe, thanks to those little darlings at Disney. Here’s a …