There’s a meme going round at the moment and, though I haven’t been tagged, I thought I’d join in anyway (cue me being blackballed by the blogging community for having such temerity.) It’s amazingly hard to just pick one picture, since I have so many that conjour memories good and bad. Facebook is a very [...]
Heavens to Liberty
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to win a caption competition on Dulwich Mum’s blog (I will gloss over the fact that I appear to have won it because I was the only person sober enough the week before Christmas to come up with a clean caption and focus on the fact that [...]
Monday Madness
Picture credit My life is no longer my own. Evidence: 1. I have a To Do list a page and a half long. My brain has turned to mush so if I don’t write it down, it’s forgotten in a breath. 2. I know I have feet and toes. I just can’t see them. I [...]
Snowstruck
Yesterday I saw the first glimpse of green grass in over a week and went to bed giddy with excitement at the prospect of leaving the house for the first time since the New Year. DH burst my bubble at 4am when he announced that it was snowing again, so this morning I once more [...]
The Good Wife Guide #1
Picture credit The last time I wrote about a Wife-guide, I got into the kind of trouble you never expect, but that has the potential to divide a family until the end of time. In making a point, I didn’t choose my words carefully enough and almost had to stop blogging altogether. So I have [...]
Sweet spiced cookies on a snowy day.
When the snow is falling, I end up raiding the kitchen to find things to do with the Pocket Dictator. She loves being in her FunPod and helping me whilst I cook, so a lump of leftover pastry was the perfect thing to focus our attention on. In actual fact it was pastry that I [...]
A 2009 retrospective
You get to Christmas and when people have stopped talking about presents and shopping and asking “are you ready?” they ask the classic rhetorical question: where did this year go? I wondered the same thing at 4am when I was lying awake being kicked by the Jumping Bean. I didn’t really get into blogging until [...]
It’s started….he’s on his way.
It’s that time of year again. DH has gone out with the PD to pick up the Turkey (and buy my gifts, no doubt). I’m at home, struck down by Tonsillitis, although even if I wasn’t the remaining snow/ice would keep me indoors: I’m fairly confident that SPD and crutches do not go well with [...]
Dooce
I always expected to be a ‘Mummy’, certainly when pregnant I always talked about becoming a ‘Mummy’. Yet somehow, from the moment that Cecily was born, I have been a ‘Mamma’. I have spent 18 months calling myself Mamma, as has everyone else, so how is it that when she finally got round to referring [...]
Christmas cheer with chocolate icing
One of the advantages of the SPD is that I am at home a lot more than I used to be and, because so much of the Domesticity is delegated to those more able, I can spend more time in the kitchen. This too is a complicated process since I cannot stand for too long, [...]
