I said this last week (to Who’s the Mummy, as it happens), to explain why I never blog any more. And, to be fair (to coin an overused phrase favourite of of of my teens, the run up to Xmas felt fairly miserable, for not even the right reason of our shops being nice and […]
When the girl played for England #EnglandTouch
This summer had so many things in it that never got blogged, one of which was when Fran got to wear an England shirt. After a shaky start to her rugby playing career (roughly 6 years ago when we took her to play in cold and MUD and she told us she hated us!) Fran […]
How to have the perfect date night after 17 years of marriage #VelvetNightIn
Yeah. About that. If your marriage has been as prolific as ours has been, a quiet night in probably isn’t something you can remember; lately we feel blessed if everyone has beetled off to bed by 10pm, and that includes the boy, who is not famed for his early nights. Latterly, Max and I have […]
Editorial: 6 ways to look after your health this winter
We’ve had an attack of croup this weekend – Bene is particularly susceptible to it – and it has reminded me that winter is well and truly here and that the scourge of winter bugs that can sweep through 7 people in a house and bring misery is once again on top of us. My […]
Keeping it Plenty Clean ;)
Anyone who is gradually shuffling off the trappings of early parenthood will know that one of the greatest losses of that time period is the end of baby wipes in the house. The time between Josie no longer needing a bum clean and Bene arriving was a time of drought and desolation in the cleaning […]
Haulage on bent wings and an empty bank account.
A conversation this morning in our kitchen went something like this:- Child Who Shall Remain Nameless: “So um… do you think the tooth fairy might visit soon? It’s just that, well, I’m quite short of cash this week….” *blank face* Me: “You lost a tooth? Again? Still?!?!?!” CWSRN: *sighs audibly* “Yuhuh. You know, about 3 […]
Racing for Life.
I keep saying it’s been a funny few weeks here and it has. Not that it matters especially, other than that it has made me think very hard about trying to take better care of myself inside and out. Annoyingly that – and the general lack of time that our life now involves – means […]
Appreciating Daddy.
We all like to feel appreciated and one of the ways we do that in our society tends to be gifts. That’s relatively easy for a family to do for a mum; flowers, pamper treats or maybe a nice bundle of yarn if you are me. 😉 I can be made very happy by coming […]
May.
If our life was a circus, every ball, actor, venue, booking and act would currently be hanging off a trapeze, or be up in the air, uncontracted, not paid the fee or possibly be a sobbing heap of luvvy-dom in a caravan somewhere. I don’t know where to start with how much everything is dangling […]
Cobbled step and sandwiches.
When I am old, (older) And you are grown, (more so) I’ll remember the day we sat on cobbled step, (warm but crowded) And ate sandwiches while killing time (how much time is left, I wonder?) The man on the tightrope, (balancing) Had a microphone and I thought, (musing) That back in my day they […]
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