I should have written this ages ago but it has been a funny old month and practically as soon as I came home from the blogging conference, the very last thing I had the energy to do was blog. In fact, I’ve barely opened my laptop for weeks; I can keep in touch on my […]
Why I Live Where I Live
This isn’t where I would choose to live, this flat nowhere town caught between the Midlands and the Fens. East Anglia gets forgotten at the best of times, I’ve seen it entirely excised from lists of areas of the UK, but a town that slides off the rolling countryside of Northamptonshire and lands like a […]
Guardian Q&A Meme
This is an exercise in trying not to be a stuck record! With thanks to SAHMLovingIt for tagging me. Which living person do you most admire, and why? You know, honestly? My husband, Max. For many things, not least his extra-ordinary abilities with Excel, producing beautiful children, leaving work to run the business which was […]
Collections
In the book I’m reading, The Hare with the Amber Eyes, there is a description of the collection of Netsuke it is all about falling into the hands of a family where the little ornaments are played with by children each night. They are taken from their mirror backed, glass vitrine (cupboard) and handed about, […]
Posting about Poo.
I’m doing this one because I need a laugh 😆 and because, dammit, if after 5 children you can’t have anecdotes and stories about poo, what the hell do you have? So girls, this one is for you lot on your wedding days – if me and daddy are not there for some reason, promise […]
Of course…
The good thing about days when there isn’t a social media site in my repertoire of places to lurk that isn’t filled with birth announcements, references to babies or pictures of them, is that I can shut them all, talk to my children, do things, make things, knit, read, catch up on housework, do my […]
Friday Club: A Favourite Gadget
I’m a complete gadget girl; I have a DS (I’m on my 4th!) and an iPhone and a laptop and a Kindle and I love them all and can use up to three of them at any one time. I have a barcode scanner at work and a laminator and a decent camera and a […]
Me and those women in Africa
Image Credit: University of Michigan In the nights following Freddie’s death, Max and I sat on the sofa, wrapped in a duvet, clinging to each other. We didn’t say much, we didn’t even cry much. We managed to have a spectacular row about a camping weekend and we managed to feed and put children to […]
Friday Club: A Favourite Childhood Memory
In a basically secure childhood, it should not be so hard to think of a favourite memory. I had to dig deep and think hard. So much of childhood is defined by me as school; the homework, the bullying, the boredom, the lack of satisfaction and isolation, the shouting in the morning as we tried […]
Believe what you will
Writing Prompt: 2. How have your belief systems changed through your lifetime? How do they compare to when you were a child? What new beliefs have you discovered? What old ones have you let go of, and why? For the Sleep is for the Weak Writing Workshop. I’m 7 and reciting Old Testament, New Testament […]
