Domestic Goddesque

Once you realise we are all mad, life starts to make sense. ‘Nuff said!

Violet Posy is having a Halloween ‘do’! I thought it only fair that I do the same…. PD with her trick-or-treat stash last year. And WH in witchy glory! The Pocket Dictator is having a Halloween Party tomorrow, a whimsical notion caused by the arrival of some lovely new cake cutters (the former cake cutters [...]

    Night Train(Commentary for a G.P.O. Film, July 1935)          by W.H. Auden (1907 – 1973)                   This is the Night Mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,The shop at the corner and the girl next door. Pulling up [...]

It’s been a long week. photo  credit   Wikipedia

Last year I hosted a Tupperware party, which went down a storm , if only for all the wrong reasons. The Tupperware lady was, to be blunt, a complete nutter and I found myself kicking her out at 11.30pm because she just didn’t want to leave. That said the Tupperware shape-sorter (whose design doesn’t appear [...]

The Supportive Fellow Mum (SFM) had a birthday this week. She got flowers and chocolates and an evening out sans enfants, which is not to be sniffed at when you have 17-month-old twins. I scored a PD- free morning later in the week and the Giant Chocolate Buttons I picked up in Waitrose led me [...]

from Cath Tate haute couture cards collection

I am being genuine when I say I love ironing. Once upon a time it was the element of getting something perfectly flat and smooth and beautifully folded or hung that I loved, along with the smell of freshly ironed things. Now I love the illicit TV watching, by which I mean utter crap I [...]

Peggy at  A Mother’s Secrets is compiling stories about pregnancy lows, so I thought I’d share mine: I hated DH, who wasn’t DH at that point (by which I mean he wasn’t my husband rather than he wasn’t my darling) for making me learn to drive. I hated the lessons, though he found me an [...]

I recently wrote about the Reciprocal Childcare Agreement that had hit the news after Ofsted, in their infinite wisdom, decided it was illegal and asked you to sign an online petition. The government have posted a response to the petition, stating: The Childcare Act 2006 requires anyone providing ‘childcare for reward’ to register with Ofsted, [...]