… that the ability to constantly process clothes through the washing machine should be assessed for your own good before anyone has 4 children. My word do we make a lot of it. Sod the washine line, its all i can do to make sure everything gets into the tumbledryer. And having a washing machine/dishwasher […]

Feeling quite pleased with my Christmas Theme page on BeadMerrily

For Kirsty – with fondest regards! Comes from an Usborne book, twist several round a pencil, push together and then hang them from everywhere! The perfect craft for all those MP Craft Kit pipecleaners! Another largely pleasant day today – very different to yesterday but nice. Started off by doing a decent clean and tidy […]

I was thinking this, as i drove about yesterday morning and a song that evokes strong memories came on the radio. What songs would be on your “Life Soundtrack”? They don’t have to be the coolest songs, or even ones you adore, just songs which make you think of certain times or events when you […]

Funny how the blogring has developed its own in-jokes. Oh, and before i forget, apologies to everyone at the end of the ring i am not quite getting to at the moment and the emails i am forgetting to reply to and thank you for all stopping by so often and commenting and keeping me […]

You’re an earth mother! Your friends sometimescall you Gaea, because you’re the originalearth goddess! You and your kids both havedirt under your fingernails, and you spend asmuch of your time as possible out of doors.Your kids have an incredible appreciation fornature. What kind of a freaky mother are you? brought to you by Quizilla Goes […]

Must just blog how impressed i am with this. Nursery are teaching the children to sign this year, i think they have quite a lot of non-verbal children there atm, and Maddy has just come home and shown me the signs for “please” “more please” and “hello.” She did them so beautifully, i was really […]

I dropped the camera and broke the zoom but before the insurance company will pay out i have to go into town and get someone to assess it. Blah..blah.. will take forever. I just tried to use the phone and couldn’t, only to discover that someone/thing has cut/eaten the cable between the phone and socket. […]

… the tv people being here, it made me wonder what exactly would i say was MY fantasy education for my children? Is it what they are getting? No, probably not. Are they getting the fantasy childhood i would like for them? Not quite… maybe not that far off though, most of what i would […]

We have Josie smiles!!!!! First smiles… aaaaah. Max was completely undone by getting a beamer from her last night… irresistable! She still has really blue eyes too, maybe with a hint of grey but you know, i am not at all convinced she is going to be brown eyed at all. There will be talk… […]