Saturday chores
After yesterday’s day of extreme enjoyment, today has been somewhat more workaday. But only somewhat. Saturdays are largely devoted to laundry but today I have felt like doing crochet so that’s exactly...
View ArticleRandom Tuesday thoughts:
Good evening. Not for the first time, I really have nothing coherent about which to blog this evening. So what’s new, you might ask. Still, I have set myself the task of a daily post so post so here...
View ArticleInconvenient
It’s less convenient when you’re just starting out. Someone comes and encases your nether regions in a lovely warm, cuddly nappy and changes it once in a while and when they’ve caught a whiff of...
View ArticleThe best and the worst
As I write this, the Boywonder is still supervising a complete clear, clean and tidy of MsDD’s room. He has finally snapped but, rather than resigning himself exhaustedly to her constant disobedience,...
View ArticleAll set
Now, I was all set with a blog post for tonight but because distracted by stuff so I ran out of time. No matter. It will keep. I despise packing and always leave it to the last minute. No matter how...
View ArticleThe first farewell
We were invited to my parents in law’s house for supper this evening. It marks the first of the bon voyages that we shall attend (endure) in the next ten days before the Boywonder goes off to take up...
View ArticleOn competitive parenting
In today’s post I am linking to an article in yesterday’s Guardian, that sums up how I have felt for quite a lot of the last 20 years. It gives me an excuse to talk about it here. I suppose it is only...
View ArticleWhining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighbourhood
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you look at it. Maya Angelou MsDD has gone back to school and it’s going to be a tough year for her. Instead of being...
View ArticleHappy birthday sweet 16
It’s not quite the birthday I’d planned for her, but I’m thankful that we at least had a dining table and I could cook a proper meal and some brownies.
View ArticleDebutante
It started rather inauspiciously, the day of my debut performance with the Bromley Music Makers. I drank some inferior wine last night, which gave me an allergic reaction and therefore half a night’s...
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