“It’s another Puddle girl!” is how she was announced on HEMUK; not sure she had a name at that point though 🙂 And now she is 2; no more children whose ages are counted in months here, everyone is on their way to being a big girl. And Josie, you’ve cornered the market in cuteness […]

Last night i Dysoned, and then Vaxed, the living room. As it takes a while, i got to thinking about the rather odd perpetual spiral that had brought me to be cleaning a carpet. It’s a funny thing; once upon a time, women were chained to a life of drudgery in the home with no […]

Got my mailboxes back! Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

… i wish to point out to the person that left me a message in text speak the other day, that “lyk” is only one letter shorter than “like”. The time saved in reducing the word to ungrammatical twaddle is unlikely to leave you the time to save the universe (particularly as i feel anyone […]

… all steam and whistles heading west… and when you find you’re quoting Elton John.. .you know your blogging has gone really wrong… 🙄 My mailboxes are utterly caput – i can see them, i can copy them, but no amount of jiggling them according to help files will fix them. ARGH. No idea what […]

Conversations i have eavesdropped on today. Amelie “I’ve got a friend called Buttercup…” Maddy “SB knows that, she’s seen you together 100 times!” SB “Not 100, probably only about 58 times…” Fran to me “I love the way SB talks; sometimes i think she should be on stage and tell the story of her life.” […]

A few days ago, Firefox dumped all my rss feeds and bookmarks – again. This morning, Thunderbird has dumped my entire email profile – and i can’t remember how to get it back. ARGH!!!!!!

What mother wouldn’t chuckle at hearing their own version of my beloved Amelie saying “Joey, PLEASE be quiet, you are keeping me AWAKE!” at 3am? 😆 We’ve had a very enjoyable few days; max spent quite a bit of the weekend creating a rabbit palace for the corner of the garden, so Smartie and Button […]