The evening news featured the funeral of Olaf Schmid, a bomb disposal expert who recently died in Afghanistan. His wife, with extra-ordinary composure, asked us to continue supporting our soldiers, even if we did not agree with the war. It’s such a small request.
The doctor informed me yesterday that I’ll need to talk to the consultant about another early delivery. This is not really a surprise given that a) it’s what happened last time (hence use of the word another) and b) I am 25 weeks pregnant and asking her for serious pain killers. My maternity leave started [...]
It’s late, I know. I’ve been having one of those weeks. I did have a ‘Thought’ planned but I got on a bus today at school time and one of the ‘students’ was pushing a pushchair. Her pushchair. As I got on she and her uniform-clad friend were having a slanging match with the driver. [...]
I’d say that Pumpkinfest ’09 turned out to be quite a hit. The kids all looked lovely in their costumes, and the WH tolerated hers quite well too, and seemed keen on the ‘craft’ (you may notice that they all appear to be wearing bin bags. They are. I may have overlooked [...]
This was my original thought, though not very original at the moment (I’ll have you know I was ahead of the trend on owning this poster and have it in my downstairs loo.) It’s appropriate after a week of awful commuting experiences and poonami incidents from both PD and WH. The WH very thoughtfully [...]
I’m Kelly, the face behind the vintage silhouette. She has a much better figure than me: I eat too much cookie dough. I’m a thirty-something Mother, Blogger and Girl Friday, married to my beloved DH.
Domestic Goddesque shares ideas for simple recipes, house-keeping and crafts for every age, along with a few shortcuts so that you can appear to be the Domestic Goddess you want to be.