It is certainly not unique experience to the babylost parent to feel cold horror creep when they hear of another parent losing their child. You do not have to have watched a child die, or be told your child has died, to know that it would be the most terrible thing, the most dreadful thing, […]
Archives for June 2011
What I thought of CyberMummy – Part One
I spent the weekend at a blogging conference/networking/marketing event – called CyberMummy. Despite the alarming title, it probably should assure you I have not come home made of aluminium, with my brains sucked out and vomit on my shoulder. On the other hand, I do wonder if when it was originally given it’s name, it […]
Not so much other than ordinary
In the almost total absence of a home internet access this week, we’ve done other stuff. The allotment was in sore need of some work, so we’ve done that. The little girls have weeded and watered and stone collected, so our beds are better next year and we’ll have paths to walk on that get […]
Jack in a Box
I’ve been quiet this last couple of weeks. I’m engaged in a process of frantically holding everything, every feeling and memory and thought inside a box with a lid that wants to spring open. It’s the only way to manage just now. I was only able to take the anti-depressants for a month and coming […]
Maths and the art of Lazy Home Ed
I’ve been waiting a long time for this moment. Not since virtual non-reader, 8 year old Fran suddenly picked up a Rainbow Fairy book and launched into fully fledged literacy, has being a home educator felt quite so good. The honey, all of it, is not in the achievement, but in the path to the […]
Learning to fly away again
Today this song, one of my all time favourites since I was a teenager, seems very appropriate. There is something about the video for it, never mind the words, which says all there is to say. Everything is perfect, beautiful and all I could ask for, but none of it quite raises a smile in […]
This is the VERY LAST beg for VOTES!!! And why.
Voting closes for the MAD Blog Awards in 10 hours time, at 9pm on Friday 17th June. After that I promise not to ask again but just for today, if you like my blog and know people who might (or who have an email address quite frankly!) would you ask them to click on this […]
Running out of Energy Choices?
We’ve gone through various periods of financial stability or instability in the house over the years; we’ve had times when were were literally living one month to the next, or more often than not, more like last month encroaching only to soon on the one ahead. We’ve had fortunate times where we’ve had a little […]
Anglesey Abbey
Anglesey Abbey is neither in Anglesey, nor an Abbey, so far as I could tell from the wander we had around it on our way home from Bury St Edmunds. It was, however, completely gorgeous and we’ll definitely be going back to do more there. It was one of those National Trust properties where they […]
Flower Power thanks to Interflora
When I got an email the other week asking if I would like to sample the delights of a bouquet of flowers from the lovely Interflora, I may have squeaked quite loudly. Well, okay, shrieked with delight rather a lot, if I’m honest! I’m a complete sucker for flowers, whether in the garden or in […]
