Archives for October 2009

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 having been commandeered by said first born child. And destroyed.) I concluded that she, being only 17 months, was still too little for Trick … [Read more...]

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 to have changed since I had one as a child) I bought for the Pocket Dictator for Christmas has finally turned out to be Toy-of-the-Week, so … [Read more...]

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 down a Retro path to birthday-cakes-past. I figured it might be worth getting some practice in, with only 5 months until PD has her next birthday, and … [Read more...]

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 have Sky plussed especially to watch whilst ironing since I would not be caught dead watching it otherwise (my Four Weddings thing started thus), and the yummy … [Read more...]