Thought for a Thursday

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

Pumpkin Party

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 [...]

Wait a minute Mr Postman

    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 [...]

Thought for a Thursday

It’s been a long week. photo  credit   Wikipedia

Home shopping with benefits.

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 [...]

Friday Night is Hedgehog Night

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 [...]

Thought for a Thursday

from Cath Tate haute couture cards collection